User accounts are used to log into the system and provide one of the basic building blocks for permissions. You could loosely categorize users into a few categories:
Regular user accounts like the one created for you during install.
Accounts used to run specific processes. These users are often named after the service they run. For example the dbus users is user to run the master dbus process.
The root account.
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