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I learned for every app I installed on my Android, a new user is created. And the data for this app is stored in /data/data/app folder with the only access permission to the user that is created for the app. Then how can I access the data when I run the app as me (another user) . I want to be able to replicate the same behavior when I install apps on my Linux machine.

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  • Yes every app is a unique UID on Android. App is stored to /data/app, data is stored to /data/data. You can't do that exactly on Linux machine because there human users are isolated, not programs. So every human user gets a unique UID but all apps/programs run by that user have same UID (unless you explicitly run them with different UID). See some related details in this answer: https://android.stackexchange.com/a/213921/218526 – Irfan Latif Mar 01 '20 at 09:23
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    Does this answer your question? Why are superuser permissions needed to acess /data partition? – Irfan Latif Mar 01 '20 at 09:24
  • Android is different to Linux, there is no account for you, only for each of your apps. And that you can't access the app-private data is part of the security concept. If you don't accept this you have to root your device. – Robert Mar 01 '20 at 17:29
  • If I read correctly, OP is asking is how to replicate the "one app, one user" scheme Android has, but on GNU/Linux. Kind of how programs like cups operate under a separate user and group. If that's the case, this question might be off-topic. – Grimoire Mar 04 '20 at 02:48

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