What is this Process?

[Jonathan Duncan]

On Thu, 4 May 2006, Sterling Jacobson wrote:

> I'm full of newb questions tonight.
>
> What is the "nobody" user and the "portmap" process it is running?
>
> Sounds ominous.
>

The "nobody" user is a system user with relatively no privileges and is 
often used to run system processes that do no need more privileges.

At your command prompt, type "man portmap" or read here:
http://www.hmug.org/man/8/portmap.php

Regards,
Jonathan