Hard Disk partition information missing

[Danny Kukawka]

On Tuesday 25 January 2005 13:47, Sjoerd Simons wrote:
> Debian defaults to NOT running hal as root, this has as a side effect that
> we can't query this stuff from harddisk. Hopefully this situation will
> change in the 0.6.x series See debian bug #290653 for more information..
>

Same problem with SUSE. Should hald always run as a root process? What was the 
intention to add option --drop-privileges and a special user/group?

If there is no problem to run hald always as root, I remove the option 
[--drop-privileges] from the startscript.

Danny
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