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Why there are two users showing in uptime command results?

Fresh7 days ago
Mar 15, 202635823 views
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When I ran the uptime on my MacBookPro machine I got the following result: Why it lists that there are two users? is it normal? and who is the other user, is it the root user or what? PS: I'm using Mac OS X 10.6.3 Edit: w command output: who command output:

Error Output

Last login: Thu Jun  3 14:43:40 on ttys000
Osama-Gamal-MBP-2:~ iOsama$ uptime
14:49  up 7 days, 20:10, 2 users, load averages: 0.29 0.24 0.24

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Try the command. On my system I have the following: tty7 is your desktop login, pts/0 is a pseudo terminal ... probably what was used to type in. Why it lists that there are two users? Because it shows every logged in session. A single user can have multiple active sessions at any one time. is it normal? 100% normal ... A-OK and who is the other user, is it the root user or what? The other user is yourself. You have multiple sessions running. You can see in your output from your question, that …

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