On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 12:42:03PM +0100, Ian Thurlbeck wrote: > > 5) hald runs as uid 68 but this has no entry in /etc/passwd ? That's not related with hal, but it is for all the username with length greater than 8. Don't you have an entry like: haldaemon:x:68:68:HAL daemon:/:/sbin/nologin -- Pat