Daemon

That's me :p dont worry about it :p
he he he...
Daemon is one of those default users in UNIX I think


Admiral
 
Yep, in most *nix there is a user called daemon who is the user that most of the daemon's run as. This is so that the background processes (daemon's) are not running as root and therefor, if hacked, can't take over the whole system.

In Linux this user is commonly called 'nobody' instead of 'daemon'
 
Someone with a warped sense of humour gave it that name- I thought the devil had taken over my computer (ie Bill Gates)
 
Actually a daemon is a helpful spirit :).
In rennaissance times they classified daemons as one step bellow an angel ;)
 
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