Re: Underscore account and group names in Leopard

• Subject: Re: Underscore account and group names in Leopard
• From: Josh Wisenbaker <email@hidden>
• Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 09:58:30 -0500
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On Dec 22, 2007, at 4:10 AM, Jose Hales-Garcia wrote:

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.

Josh

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