2.9. Summary

Throughout this chapter, we have looked at how services, daemons, and processes are started in Mac OS X. Each of these will take up resources on a computer and according to which account invokes them they can each be dangerous. In order to mitigate some of the damage that can be done by a process, we will now turn our attention to managing these users in Chapter 3.

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