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I have not seen any applications creating a user with the applications name. How can one avoid a naming conflict? Kate (a text editor) might be installed on a s

by vimsee 4y ago

I have not seen any applications creating a user with the applications name. How can one avoid a naming conflict? Kate (a text editor) might be installed on a system by Kate (a person). What I have noticed however is that there are daemons running as root and is used as a "middle man" whenever an application running as a normal user needs some extra privilege.

pmontra 4y ago
Desktop applications no, because they must run as the user (let's leave containers and sandboxes alone.) Servers yes, for example PostgreSQL creates the postgres user and runs as such.