Why does ps aux displays a number instead of a username?

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Mar 15, 202611634 views

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Running just gave me the following output: www-data is the apach2 user. That's okay, it's what I expected with , but what is 1001?

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www-data 26254  0.0  0.7  27304  3544 ?        S    15:07   0:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
1001     25807  0.8  0.8  48444  4332 ?        Sl   S…

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Why does ps aux displays a number instead of a username?

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