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Leonid.I

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From: Aethyr

Registered: 2009-03-22

Posts: 999

[SOLVED] Adding users to HAL group

Hi,

   I have recently found out that on my laptop, which runs Arch for almost a year now, my user is in the HAL group. I must have added myself there automatically upon installation... However, removing my user from this group does not limit any functionality. Although, I would say, it's a security hole, Arch wiki (LXDE section) does mention that a user should be added to HAL group in order to mount usb devices, which is rather strange...
   So, my question is whether normal users should be in this group at all, or optical and storage are sufficient?

Thanks,
L.
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Last edited by Leonid.I (2009-09-23 21:43:32)

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Anonymo

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Registered: 2005-04-07

Posts: 427

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Re: [SOLVED] Adding users to HAL group

I don't think it's required
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/User_Management

loafer

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From: the pub

Registered: 2009-04-14

Posts: 1,772

Re: [SOLVED] Adding users to HAL group

I have used Gnome, Openbox and Xfce on Arch and have never added a user to the hal group.

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bernarcher

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From: Germany

Registered: 2009-02-17

Posts: 2,281

Re: [SOLVED] Adding users to HAL group

I too have no user in my hal group. And I have experimented with almost every DE/WM available.

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iBertus

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From: Greenville, NC

Registered: 2004-11-04

Posts: 2,228

Re: [SOLVED] Adding users to HAL group

I think you should add the user to the storage group instead for automounting drives.... don't know for sure because it's always just worked here with GNOME/KDE and it's been years since I've used anything but one of the big two DEs.

Leonid.I

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From: Aethyr

Registered: 2009-03-22

Posts: 999

Re: [SOLVED] Adding users to HAL group

Thanks everyone for quick replies!

It didn't look right and now you support it.

@iBertus: yes, you are right, I do need to be in the storage group in order to use usb flash drives; I don't think Gnome alone will provide this capability, unless they do something strange under the rug.

So, I guess, this is SOLVED.

Thanks again,
L.

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