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In general shared computers should have seperate users, on Linux your user is just an su - away.


In this case the environment is shared and so there is a single user account - this is for example a computer in a laboratory, connected to instruments.

Multiple user accounts would defeat the purpose of it being a shared computer. It's a shared computer because everyone is using it for the same thing.


You can have a folder that's g+rwx and just give everyone different accounts for things like git. That's the reason these things exist.




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