False.

However I gave up arguing with this legacy UNIX guy, I tried to explain with Apache and the user nobody -- his response was exactly it's not a user, I'm think he's a textbook user.

Can anyone help me explain to this guy what actually qualifies as a deamon and how each deamon is instrically associated with a user.

Thanks. :anger: I've got stop getting worked up.

MattF, cool down... :stickout
What is a daemon in the first place?
Ask that guy to find out...
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/D/daemon.html

Now whether nobody is a user in your system which quite simple to me... any user listed in your system user list /etc/passwd is considered a valid user in your system. If nobody is in your /etc/passwd file... it is a valid user name as nobody to me and likewise for groups :D

Just my thoughts and sorry for my bad/poor english :stickout

most networks define defaults of guest, nobody, admin, sysop, everyone etc. these are always valid users with permissions that can be changed.