Timeline for Is it normal to have another user logged in on my computer when no one is explicitly logged in?
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| S Dec 11, 2023 at 20:24 | vote | accept | Hugues | ||
| S Dec 11, 2023 at 15:18 | vote | accept | Hugues | ||
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| Dec 11, 2023 at 15:18 | history | edited | Hugues | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 11, 2023 at 14:54 | comment | added | Hugues | @Kroltan Thanks, I'm well aware of Unix permission system and the existence of multiple process owned by non human users. However, up to recently, MacOS would not launch a human-user owned process when this human had not explicitly logged in. Hence my question. | |
| Dec 11, 2023 at 13:14 | comment | added | Kroltan | As for why these things run in separate "users", and not just a big "system" user, is because "user"s, human or not, are a way of assigning permissions to processes and resources. Classic example is two non-adminstrator human users not being able to access eachother's documents, but there are a myriad more specific ways of ensuring processes don't do thinks they aren't supposed to. | |
| Dec 11, 2023 at 7:28 | history | edited | David Anderson | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 10, 2023 at 20:00 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Dec 10, 2023 at 13:37 | history | edited | Hugues | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
add additional processes started after login
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| Dec 10, 2023 at 13:17 | answer | added | bmike♦ | timeline score: 2 | |
| Dec 10, 2023 at 13:15 | vote | accept | Hugues | ||
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| Dec 10, 2023 at 12:49 | history | edited | bmike♦ |
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| Dec 10, 2023 at 12:44 | answer | added | Andy Griffiths | timeline score: 3 | |
| Dec 10, 2023 at 11:57 | history | asked | Hugues | CC BY-SA 4.0 |