[arch-general] Weird group: rtkit

[Allan McRae]

On 04/03/10 21:17, Magnus Therning wrote:
> I was just poking around in my /etc/groups when I found
>
>      rtkit:x:99:
>
> I suspect this belongs to rtkit in some way.  However, this group id
> conflicts with
>
>      nobody:x:99:
>
> Looking at the rtkit.install I notice that the group id isn't
> hardcoded, so I don't quite know how this could have happened.
>
> Is there likely to be any harm in renumbering the rtkit group to some unused id?
>

This was a bug in shadow that is fixed by the package in [testing]. 
There is no harm in changing the group id, but I would reinstall rtkit 
so that its files permissions are set to the new group id (or do it 
manually yourself).

Allan