On 11/7/05, Sonawane Satish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
> Does anybody know who are these(nobody, lp, postfix)
> users as indicated by "top" command.
>

Many daemon executables are owned and run as user created for the sole
purpose of running those daemons. This is for security reasons. The
daemon thus cannot write to other user's data or the system data in
case they are compromised.

-aditya

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