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Jay Culley

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Is this a service account or can it be deleted? How did it get there? It's not a SAMBA, FTP user.
nas:x:100:100:nas:/dev/null:/dev/null
nobody:x:65534:65534:nobody:/dev/null:/dev/null
tor:x:65533:65533:tor:/dev/null:/dev/null

FW 384.12

Thanks
 
It's used for dropping privileges. Avahi, dnsmasq and a few others use it, for security purposes.
 

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