Thanks to @chipaca … There’s a post here about developing the functionality for user accounts being supported. As I thought it’s not ready yet, but work is ongoing…
The previous (obsolete) discussion on the topic is here . To make the discussion clearer I was asked to start a new topic with the currently agreed to design so that we may work through any additional details. As such, I will copy the entire ‘Introduction’ and a description of the 4 use cases from the other topic, but leave the ‘Implementation Ideas’ in the other topic for historical reference.
Introduction
Today, snappy’s notion of users (and groups) is primitive:
daemons run as root
commands…