user 'hal'?

[James Tappin]

On Thu, 6 Oct 2005 16:35:20 +0200

EB> > > >>I was checking my groups and users and found that the cdrom
EB> > > >and floppy >groups contained the mysterious user, 'hal'.  Where
EB> > > >did this come from? >Is it a security breach?
EB> > > >>

hal is the "hardware access layer" which is used to detect when CDRoms,
floppies, USB memory sticks and the like are added to the system.
Presumably hal is the user under which the relevant daemons run.

James

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