Apparently, though unproven, at 21:12 on Wednesday 17 November 2010, Philip Webb did opine thusly:
> Some time ago, I removed Hal from my system with no problems. > While adding 'mlocate' to /etc/group today, > I noticed that many entries still have 'haldaemon' included. > Is it safe to delete these ? You can delete them safely with userdel haldaemon groupdel haldaemon However, why bother? It's a system user and a group of the same name to which several system users belong. The user and group own no files, are not referenced in any security-related configs and as such, do nothing. You likely also have an apache, postfix, adm and nobody system users which also might not be in use. If you are happy leaving those in place, the same would apply to haldaemon. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
