when I do an inventory and collect hidden accounts, some macs show 60+ hidden accounts.
does any knows why so many hidden accounts gets created?
thank you.
when I do an inventory and collect hidden accounts, some macs show 60+ hidden accounts.
does any knows why so many hidden accounts gets created?
thank you.
JAMF only creates one hidden account (only creates more if you tell it to do so).
interesting thank you @RobertBasil I thought it was strange to see 60+ hidden accounts.
If you mean the ones starting with "_" when you use dscl . list /Users , macOS internal service accounts, pretty much every background task seems to have it's own thing going on.
These are the ones I see.
#!/bin/sh
83 _amavisd AMaViS Daemon No /var/virusmails No
55 _appleevents AppleEvents Daemon No /var/empty No
87 _appowner Application Owner No /var/empty No
79 _appserver Application Server No /var/empty No
67 _ard Apple Remote Desktop No /var/empty No
235 _assetcache Asset Cache Service No /var/empty No
245 _astris Astris Services No /var/db/astris No
97 _atsserver ATS Server No /var/empty No
229 _avbdeviced Ethernet AVB Device Daemon No /var/empty No
93 _calendar Calendar No /var/empty No
32 _ces Certificate Enrollment Service No /var/empty No
82 _clamav ClamAV Daemon No /var/virusmails No
202 _coreaudiod Core Audio Daemon No /var/empty No
236 _coremediaiod Core Media IO Daemon No /var/empty No
212 _cvmsroot CVMS Root No /var/empty No
72 _cvs CVS Server No /var/empty No
77 _cyrus Cyrus Administrator No /var/imap No
59 _devdocs Developer Documentation No /var/empty No
220 _devicemgr Device Management Server No /var/empty No
244 _displaypolicyd Display Policy Daemon No /var/empty No
241 _distnote DistNote No /var/empty No
214 _dovecot Dovecot Administrator No /var/empty No
227 _dovenull Dovecot Authentication No /var/empty No
215 _dpaudio DP Audio No /var/empty No
71 _eppc Apple Events User No /var/empty No
98 _ftp FTP Daemon No /var/empty No
247 _gamecontrollerd Game Controller Daemon No /var/empty No
56 _geod Geo Services Daemon No /var/db/geod No
240 _iconservices IconServices No /var/empty No
25 _installassistant Install Assistant No /var/empty No
96 _installer Installer No /var/empty No
84 _jabber Jabber XMPP Server No /var/empty No
218 _kadmin_admin Kerberos Admin Service No /var/empty No
219 _kadmin_changepw Kerberos Change Password Service No /var/empty No
234 _krb_anonymous Open Directory Kerberos Anonymous No /var/empty No
232 _krb_changepw Open Directory Kerberos Change Password Service No /var/empty No
231 _krb_kadmin Open Directory Kerberos Admin Service No /var/empty No
233 _krb_kerberos Open Directory Kerberos No /var/empty No
230 _krb_krbtgt Open Directory Kerberos Ticket Granting Ticket No /var/empty No
246 _krbfast Kerberos FAST Account No /var/empty No
217 _krbtgt Kerberos Ticket Granting Ticket No /var/empty No
239 _launchservicesd _launchservicesd No /var/empty No
211 _lda Local Delivery Agent No /var/empty No
205 _locationd Location Daemon No /var/db/locationd No
26 _lp Printing Services No /var/spool/cups No
78 _mailman Mailman List Server No /var/empty No
248 _mbsetupuser Setup User No /var/setup No
54 _mcxalr MCX AppLaunch No /var/empty No
65 _mdnsresponder mDNSResponder No /var/empty No
74 _mysql MySQL Server No /var/empty No
222 _netbios NetBIOS No /var/empty No
228 _netstatistics Network Statistics Daemon No /var/empty No
24 _networkd Network Services No /var/networkd No
242 _nsurlsessiond NSURLSession Daemon No /var/db/nsurlsessiond No
243 _nsurlstoraged NSURLStorage Daemon No /var/empty No
249 _ondemand On Demand Resource Daemon No /var/db/ondemand No
27 _postfix Postfix Mail Server No /var/spool/postfix No
216 _postgres PostgreSQL Server No /var/empty No
76 _qtss QuickTime Streaming Server No /var/empty No
60 _sandbox Seatbelt No /var/empty No
203 _screensaver Screensaver No /var/empty No
31 _scsd Service Configuration Service No /var/empty No
92 _securityagent SecurityAgent No /var/db/securityagent No
58 _serialnumberd Serial Number Daemon No /var/empty No
200 _softwareupdate Software Update Service No /var/empty No
89 _spotlight Spotlight No /var/empty No
75 _sshd sshd Privilege separation No /var/empty No
73 _svn SVN Server No /var/empty No
13 _taskgated Task Gate Daemon No /var/empty No
94 _teamsserver TeamsServer No /var/teamsserver No
210 _timezone AutoTimeZoneDaemon No /var/empty No
91 _tokend Token Daemon No /var/empty No
208 _trustevaluationagent Trust Evaluation Agent No /var/empty No
99 _unknown Unknown User No /var/empty No
95 _update_sharing Update Sharing No /var/empty No
213 _usbmuxd iPhone OS Device Helper No /var/db/lockdown No
4 _uucp Unix to Unix Copy Protocol No /var/spool/uucp No
224 _warmd Warm Daemon No /var/empty No
221 _webauthserver Web Auth Server No /var/empty No
88 _windowserver WindowServer No /var/empty No
70 _www World Wide Web Server No /Library/WebServer No
252 _wwwproxy WWW Proxy No /var/empty No
251 _xserverdocs OS X Server Documents Service No /var/empty No
1 daemon System Services No /var/root No
-2 nobody Unprivileged User No /var/empty No
0 root System Administrator Yes /var/root No
Those are service users. Not accounts.
are those hidden service users normal? (got it)
Yes, they are normal.
Jamf shows 123 Local user accounts on a lot of my iMacs. User RobertBasil states these are not local users and are Services accounts? Why are they listed under Local User Accounts in JAMF? Am I misunderstanding this? System files are bogging down our iMacs and I feel like we may have a misconfiguration in jamf.
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