| Soni | when should one add a system user? | 19:43 |
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| teward | Soni: only if you're adding a user that has no user interface or interaction and pretty much is only used for a system service | 22:35 |
| tomreyn | Soni: most of the time for daemons / services / things not run by a human user | 22:36 |
| teward | ^^ | 22:36 |
| Soni | ah, so something that should only exist in the context of systemd units = system user | 22:36 |
| teward | tomreyn: you and I both must be alive at the same hours lol | 22:36 |
| tomreyn | hehe | 22:36 |
| Soni | something we'll ssh into = non-system user? | 22:36 |
| teward | Soni: pretty much yes | 22:36 |
| teward | Soni: anything you SSH into is just a standard user | 22:36 |
| tomreyn | that was another funny coincident, teward | 22:36 |
| Soni | okay, that makes it easier | 22:36 |
| Soni | thanks! | 22:37 |
| teward | Soni: 'system' class of users should be reserved soluely for daemons and services and things that don't get human interaction | 22:37 |
| teward | yep | 22:37 |
| teward | case in point we have a custom listserv system at a job. It operates on a SystemD timer under a system user called 'threader' | 22:37 |
| teward | said 'threader' is existing for the program base and execution of it. Thank you SystemD :P | 22:37 |
| teward | but that's a system user, no login shell, etc. | 22:42 |
| teward | :) | 22:42 |
| teward | Soni: glad that made it easier to understand, sorry about the delay of getting you a reply | 22:42 |
| teward | (weekends are pretty dead xD) | 22:42 |
| teward | tomreyn: you sure about that? :P | 22:42 |
| tomreyn | teward: if it wasn't a coincident, i must have been sitting just next to my enter key, watching the channel patiently for someone to respond, finally allowing me to send that pre-composed message. | 22:48 |
| teward | lol | 22:48 |
| tomreyn | you might characterize me as a little weird, but not that much. ;-) | 22:49 |
| teward | in terms of 'weird' i'm pretty high up on that scale :P | 22:49 |
| teward | so i mean | 22:49 |
| tomreyn | or maybe we're really just one person with two identities. | 22:49 |
| tomreyn | anyways, it was good chatting to the other side for a while. ;-) | 22:50 |
| teward | lol | 23:08 |
| teward | tomreyn: well i am in the shadows 24/7/365 so yeah 'the other side' xD | 23:08 |
| teward | in either case, alls good :) | 23:08 |
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