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Activity Monitor "User nobody" what is it?
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Chicago
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Was going thru the activity monitor processes and found this process
Process ID 176
Process Name mDNSResponder
User nobody
%CPU 0.00
#Threads 2
Real Memory 824.00 KB
Virtual Memory 27.31 MB
Does anybody know what this is?
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Hong Kong
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It's a virus.. delete it!
No, just kidding..
mDNS is a componment of Rendevous, I think this app is for managing service that using renvdevous
But I don't know how it has a user called nobody...
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: San Diego, CA, USA
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Originally posted by Sydney Tsai:
But I don't know how it has a user called nobody...
nobody is one of the standard system users on OS X. I'm not sure why mDNSResponder is running as nobody, though — I thought it normally ran as root.
(Last edited by Chuckit; Oct 23, 2004 at 03:52 PM.
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Chuck
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Senior User
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Boston, MA
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It's also running as nobody on my PowerBook
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Mac Elite
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Manchester, UK
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Remember that 'nobody' has greater user rights than 'root'.*
* Rare example of a UNIX user permissions joke.
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Senior User
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Stuttgart, Germany
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Originally posted by philm:
Remember that 'nobody' has greater user rights than 'root'.
*groan*
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Banned
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: -
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: various
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running as nobody on my pb too. never noticed that before.
very funny.
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