user 'hal'?

[Erik Bågfors]

2005/10/6, Vram <lamsokvr at xprt.net>:
> On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 22:10 -0400, Art Alexion wrote:
> > Vram wrote:
> >
> > >On Tue, 2005-10-04 at 12:49 -0400, Art Alexion wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >>I was checking my groups and users and found that the cdrom and floppy
> > >>groups contained the mysterious user, 'hal'.  Where did this come from?
> > >>Is it a security breach?
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
> > >try  this
> > >
> > >
> > >dog <or cat if you still live in the dark ages>  /etc/passwd | grep hal
> > >
> > >
> > Got it.  But what is 'dog'? I have cat.
> >
>
>
> root at Aether:/etc # apt-cache search dog | grep dog
>
> dog - Enhanced replacement for cat
>
>
> root at Aether:apt-get install dog

And why not run "grep hal /etc/passwd" instead of dog or cat?

/Erik