What are these for?

[lee]

Michael Cronenworth <mike at cchtml.com> writes:

> lee wrote:
>> what is auditd for?  The manpage doesn't tell me, and I can't find any
>> documentation about it telling me what the purpose is.  Is there
>> anything that speaks against disabling it?
>
> $ man auditd
>
>>
>> Similar with mcelog:  What do I need that for?  And benefits from it?  I
>> can probably just disable it.
>
> $ man mcelog
>
>>
>> Do I need polkitd?  It doesn't make sense to me; if I want to do
>> something for which more permissions are required, I do it as root.  So
>> what's the benefit I would have from polkitd?
>
> $ man polkitd
>
> PolicyKit allows you to access/perform things without becoming root.

I have read the man pages, did you?

Nothing in them tells me whether I need these things or not and if I can
just disable them or not.


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