UID 68 in ps list

[Michael Yep]

Raina Otoni wrote:
> Michael Yep wrote:
>> Here is a sample from my 'ps aux' list  what is uid 68 ?
>>
>>
>>
>> avahi     2661  0.0  0.3   3900  1460 ?        Ss    2006   0:00
>> avahi-daemon: running [localhost.local]
>> avahi     2662  0.0  0.0   2876   320 ?        Ss    2006   0:00
>> avahi-daemon: chroot helper process
>> 68        2671  0.0  0.9   6264  4296 ?        Ss    2006   1:09 hald
>> root      2672  0.0  0.2   3352  1120 ?        S     2006   0:00 hald-runner
>> 68        2678  0.0  0.1   2304   944 ?        S     2006   0:00
>> hald-addon-acpi: listening on acpid socket /var/run/acpid.socket
>> 68        2684  0.0  0.1   2308   940 ?        S     2006   0:00
>> hald-addon-keyboard: listening on /dev/input/event1
>> 68        2694  0.0  0.1   2304   940 ?        S     2006   0:00
>> hald-addon-keyboard: listening on /dev/input/event0
>>
> 
> 68 is haldaemon default UID.
> http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/hal
> 
I figured as much. I just found it odd to be a numeric id instead of the
user name


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