Comment by seanhunter
10 hours ago
It has always been very easy to create separate users on Linux and certainly for tasks where you need to switch between contexts.
Linux is a unix, so has always been multi-user and sharing any data between processes is facilitated in all manner of ways. So context could be shared over files or unix-domain sockets or shared memory or tcp or udp sockets or via message passing or … a bunch of other ways. That has been the case since 1996 or so when I started using it certainly.
Separate user accounts are irrelevant when any one user has sudo and can therefore change binaries for everyone.
The point is to not give every user (especially the LLM user) sudo access.
Exactly. And you can always create a non-priv user and do the llm stuff using that user.