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It seems to me that stuff like iwd, ntpd, udevd, bluetoothd, dhcpcd, etc. etc. each running as a different user is pretty desirable. Every system works like this, including Windows.

The most obvious reason for this is so that a security problem in one of these daemons won't be able to read your Firefox cookies, install a rootkit, and stuff like that.




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