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- the worker process is usually started at system boot time and runs as long as the system is up
- the worker process runs as either a Windows service or a daemon owned by the root user on OS X and linux.
- the worker process will run jobs under another user other than root or the system service; which user it will run the jobs as is determined by the proxy_execution_mode value;
proxy_execution_mode = proxy
means it will always authenticate as the user defined in proxy_account.proxy_execution_mode = user
means it will always authenticate as the user who submitted the job.
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