user 'hal'?

Vram lamsokvr at xprt.net
Thu Oct 6 16:39:36 UTC 2005


On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 16:35 +0200, Erik Bågfors wrote:
> 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
> 

That is the spirit...

You do stuff in Linux because, you can!!  You have the freedom of
choice...  

And I use dog because it tickles me!!

more  --  less

cat  --   dog

<hehe>


Good luck

Vram






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