Daemon

[Aussie John]

What is this Daemon user i see lurking on my system

 

[AdmiralAK]

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


Admiral

 

[LordOphidian]

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'

 

[Aussie John]

Someone with a warped sense of humour gave it that name- I thought the devil had taken over my computer (ie Bill Gates)

 

[AdmiralAK]

Actually a daemon is a helpful spirit .
In rennaissance times they classified daemons as one step bellow an angel