Randy McMurchy wrote:
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This is the question the group needs to help with
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9) Currently the book has instructions to create a hal user and group.
This really isn't necessary, and here is why. The haldaemon boot
script runs the hald daemon with the --retain-privileges switch so
the root user never hands the daemon off to the unprivileged user.
I tried everything I could think of to circumvent this, however no
matter what I did the unprivileged user could not perform any
callouts (such as update /etc/fstab). I went to extremes to see if
I could make it work and could not. This confirms information I
read about on the mailing list.
In fact, the use of fstab-sync is considered bad practice due to the
possibility to lose the entire /etc/fstab if power suddenly goes away,
and thus pmount is preferred (it doesn't need fstab entries). This
doesn't eliminate the permission problem for determination of fs type
and getting ACPI events.
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