Legitimate user or hacker -Terminal?
All users account starting with an _
are automatically generated by the system. For example, _lp
is an account used to manage the Printing Services without the use of the priviledged account root
.
This is a separation of priviledges and a good protection.
For all other account names,
daemon
and nobody
are also generated by the system.
For the remaining accounts, let's say you see a suspect user account bond
, use the following command:
finger bond
to check what bond
account is used for and when it was last used to connect on your system.