What are these Legacy Profile processes? Ran by _RMD

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What are these Legacy Profile processes? Ran by _RMD

I have two processes:

LegacyProfileSubscriber

InteractiveLegacyProfilesSubcriber

These processes are both being ran by _RMD, which I have no idea what that is and Google is not helping.

They are also repeated for my user.

I am the only user on this macintosh and this is a personal machine not enrolled in MDM, as far as I am aware.

Anyone have any idea what these could be? I do have an audio licensing program on here that rootkits the machine (ilok) as well as a few software hubs (Native Instruments, Arturia, Ozone, Splice) for VST licensing and updates. Other than those, Ableton + Skype + Omnficocus, this is a clean install as of yesterday.

Any insight?

MacBook Air

Posted on Jan 4, 2023 12:17 AM

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Answer 1

Owl-53

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Jan 4, 2023 2:03 AM in response to DisplacedSpace

The check is some Profiles are used or installed on this computer >>

On your Mac, choose Apple menu > System Settings, click Privacy and Security in the sidebar, then click Profiles on the right. (You may need to scroll down.) Select a profile in the Profiles list to view information about it.

If none are used it should look like image below

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Answer 2

Jan 4, 2023 12:21 AM in response to DisplacedSpace

_RMD is also running: RemoteManagementd, AccountSubscriber, ManagementTestSubscriber, PasscodeSettingsSubcriber, and Disnoted.

Parent process is LaunchD for all.

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Answer 3

Jan 4, 2023 3:57 AM in response to Owl-53

Yeah, I checked this - double checked again. No profiles are in use. So, are these just profiles that haven't been used but have been deployed to this computer? How would they have gotten here on a clean install?

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Answer 4

Owl-53

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Jan 4, 2023 4:51 AM in response to DisplacedSpace

Background - Running a very clean installation of Ventura 13.1 on 2 Apple Machines

The processes appears to be a Native Apple Process to me and there is nothing to fret about.

Refer to image below from Activity Monitor >> View >> View ALL processes it this will put ones' mind to rest.

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Answer 5

etresoft

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Jan 4, 2023 4:14 AM in response to DisplacedSpace

These things aren't documented. If it bothers you, then you probably shouldn't go looking for the other 100+ users or the 800-odd other processes.

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What are these Legacy Profile processes? Ran by _RMD

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