December 2018
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Take a look at this user, on your Ubuntu VM:
$ grep apt /etc/passwd_apt:x:104:65534::/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin
It's got an underscore, the only one to have one in the entirety of the /etc/passwd file; why might that be?
One potential reason is that it's a system account and the application maintainer or developer decided to denote this with an underscore character, as is the case with other operating systems.
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