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Underscore account and group names in Leopard




In Leopard, Apple has started a new convention of adding an underscore before the name of accounts and groups that run daemons. Here are some group names as examples... (the numbers are their gids)


_amavisd           83
_appowner          87
_appserveradm      81
_appserverusr      79
_ard               67
_atsserver         97
_calendar          93
_clamav            82

Has anyone seen documentation about this convention? I'm creating a daemon account and group for PostgreSQL and don't mind using the convention, but I'm wondering if it's more than just a naming convention and if accounts with these names are treated any differently by the system.

Thanks,
Jose

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Jose Hales-Garcia
UCLA Department of Statistics
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