[Pkg-utopia-commits] r104 - packages/hal/trunk/debian
Sjoerd Simons
sjoerd@haydn.debian.org
Thu, 18 Nov 2004 13:09:21 -0700
Author: sjoerd
Date: 2004-11-18 13:09:17 -0700 (Thu, 18 Nov 2004)
New Revision: 104
Modified:
packages/hal/trunk/debian/README.Debian
Log:
Fixed typo
Modified: packages/hal/trunk/debian/README.Debian
===================================================================
--- packages/hal/trunk/debian/README.Debian 2004-11-18 18:47:30 UTC (rev 103)
+++ packages/hal/trunk/debian/README.Debian 2004-11-18 20:09:17 UTC (rev 104)
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+
This package runs hal as non-root. By setting 'DAEMON_OPTS=--drop-privileges'
in /etc/default/hal (default), the hal daemon run as normal user 'hal' with
some additional kernel capabilities and in some privileged groups (floppy and
@@ -4,9 +5,9 @@
cdrom). This will not allow to execute callout scripts as root, though, so
fstab-sync will not work.
-ATTENTION! This behavior is fully compatible with running as root since hal
-must be in group 'disk' to do file system autodetection on fixed hard disk
-partitions. However, since disk membership is almost as dangerous as root
+ATTENTION! This behavior is not fully compatible with running hal as root
+since hal must be in group 'disk' to do file system autodetection on fixed hard
+disk partitions. However, since disk membership is almost as dangerous as root
access, the package does not put the hal user into this group by default. If
you want to get the full power of hal, either let it run as root or add hal to
the disk group with the command