full list user accounts question

[Morrile]

Hello,
I am on Yosemite and wanted to know what accounts are on the mac. I typed dscl . list /Users I grep ^_.* and discovered the following;

• daemon - is this the admin?
• Guest - obvious
• Me - obvious
• nobody – what is this?
• root - obvious

I couldn't anything with Google but then I couldn't phrase the right question.
experts please help!

 

[maflynn]

Nobody is used by the system.

See this link http://osxdaily.com/2010/11/27/the-find-process-in-mac-os-x/

daemon is used for processes run in the background by the unix subsystem.

 

[GGJstudios]

Hello,
I am on Yosemite and wanted to know what accounts are on the mac. I typed dscl . list /Users I grep ^_.* and discovered the following;

• daemon - is this the admin?
• Guest - obvious
• Me - obvious
• nobody – what is this?
• root - obvious

I couldn't anything with Google but then I couldn't phrase the right question.
experts please help!

Nobody, unknown, root and daemon are all typical users in unix/OS X. There's nothing to worry about.

 

[Morrile]

Sorry this is late but work gets in the way of life at times

Many thanks for explaining