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Activity Monitor "User nobody" what is it?
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Oct 23, 2004, 02:39 PM
 
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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Oct 23, 2004, 02:59 PM
 
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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Oct 23, 2004, 03:32 PM
 
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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Oct 23, 2004, 03:40 PM
 
It's also running as nobody on my PowerBook
     
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Oct 23, 2004, 04:03 PM
 
Remember that 'nobody' has greater user rights than 'root'.*




* Rare example of a UNIX user permissions joke.
     
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Oct 23, 2004, 07:27 PM
 
Originally posted by philm:
Remember that 'nobody' has greater user rights than 'root'.
*groan*
     
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Oct 23, 2004, 08:06 PM
 
I chuckled.
     
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Oct 23, 2004, 10:56 PM
 
running as nobody on my pb too. never noticed that before.
very funny.
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