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pgrep -afl account
1912 /usr/lib/accountsservice/accounts-daemon
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pgrep -afl account
1912 /usr/lib/accountsservice/accounts-daemon
it has something to do with handling user accounts, but will the various useradd, usermod and userdel commands still work without it ?The AccountService project provides a set of D-Bus interfaces for querying and manipulating user account information and an implementation of these interfaces, based on the useradd, usermod and userdel commands
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What does accounts-daemon on Debian actually do ?
So, follow the instructions, in the above link. Then on the VMbut will the various useradd, usermod and userdel commands still work without it ?
accounts-daemon.service is a potential security risk. It is part of AccountsService, which allows programs to get and manipulate user account information. I can't think of a good reason to allow this kind of behind-my-back operations, so I mask it.
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debian@debian:~$ systemd-analyze blame
4.531s dev-sda1.device
3.854s ufw.service
2.439s loadcpufreq.service
2.325s ModemManager.service
2.153s accounts-daemon.service
2.151s NetworkManager-wait-online.service
1.487s networking.service
1.321s rsyslog.service
1.287s systemd-udevd.service
1.026s systemd-journal-flush.service
1.019s keyboard-setup.service
691ms virtualbox-guest-utils.service
676ms irqbalance.service
674ms lm-sensors.service