ps ux on OSX shows user for ps command to be root? Is this normal?

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Published on 2010-03-23T07:32:55Z Indexed on 2010/03/23 7:43 UTC
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I am running OS X 10.6.1 . When i am logged in as a normal user of group staff and do a

ps ux

it lists my ps ux command as being run by root:

snies   181   0.0  0.3  2774328  12500   ??  S     6:00PM   0:20.96 /System/Library...
root   1673   0.0  0.0  2434788    508 s001  R+    8:16AM   0:00.00 ps ux
snies   177   0.0  0.0  2457208    984   ??  Ss    6:00PM   0:00.52 /sbin/launchd
snies  1638   0.0  0.0  2435468   1064 s001  S     8:13AM   0:00.03 -bash

Is this normal behaviour? And if so why? Please note that the user is not an Administrator account and is not able to sudo.

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