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User 99, Unknown

Greg Miller:

Mac OS X has an additional interesting account for a user named “unknown”. Unknown has the UID number 99, which is treated specially within the kernel as well as some user-level libraries. The special properties afforded to unknown are needed to make device sharing between computers as painless as possible.

★ Saturday, 17 March 2007