So, I just installed the node.js package from nodejs.org and I was poking around to see what it installed. Over in /usr/local/bin I saw this owner 24561. I see it in a few other places too. What is this? What does it mean? Should it be root like everything else?

lrwxr-xr-x  1 root              wheel        66 Jun 23 13:02 mate -> /Applications/TextMate.app/Contents/SharedSupport/Support/bin/mate
-rwxr-xr-x  1 24561             wheel  18865984 Jun 29 09:32 node
-rwxr-xr-x  1 24561             wheel       355 Jun 29 09:32 node-waf
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root              wheel        38 Jul  3 12:15 npm -> ../lib/node_modules/npm/bin/npm-cli.js

What was curious is that I couldn't find any other information about this user by Googling. Using OS X Lion 10.7.4 with Xcode installed if that makes any difference.