could I delete user and groups polkituser, messagebus?

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Feb 13, 2013, at 08:37, FritzS wrote:

> I run MacPorts on SL 10.8.2 and use only "pan" and the "putty" package, Python 2.7 is installed too - before I had some other (GIMP, ...) installed (port installed list are attached).
> 
> Now I found polkituser, messagebus in my process list, are they needed or could I delete this both?
> Sometimes polkituser, messagebus need some process time, but no MacPort program are started!
> 
> This hint I found too:
> http://www.apfeltalk.de/forum/showthread.php?t=283795

As that thread says, the users polkituser and messagebus are created by the ports policykit and dbus respectively. If you don't have those ports installed anymore then you can feel free to delete those users.