too many Users on Activity Monitor

I'm the only person that uses this computer, but there are too many users which scares me.

Here are some of them that I screenshotted that.

iMac 27″, macOS 11.6

Posted on Dec 1, 2021 5:37 PM

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Barney-15E

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Dec 2, 2021 4:49 AM in response to shirazigs

There are nearly one hundred users in macOS. They exists to allow processes to run with the least privileges.

Owl-53

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Dec 2, 2021 2:05 AM in response to shirazigs

From the supplied picture above what is being shown are Not Users but Apple Processes.

These processes are normal processes and part of the Operating System

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