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 -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: ([email protected]) List Information: http://plug.org.in/mailing-list/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
