Discrepancy between spec.installConfig.users and users used to run components

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What happened?

K0s provides a way to specify users to be created during installation. That's what spec.installConfig.users is used for. However, these users are not used for anything else. In particular, the users used to run the components are hard-coded.

Steps to reproduce

1. Modify spec.installConfig.users so that it deviates from the defaults.
2. Run k0s install with that config.
3. Start k0s and have a look at the logs and the users used to run supervised processes.

Expected behavior

I suppose the most common expectation would be that the users to be installed are also the users used to run the supervised components.

Actual behavior

The configured users are being created. However, the default users are tried when running the components.

Screenshots and logs

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Additional context

The location and naming of the users within the config spec hierarchy seems appropriate for their actual use, although the current implementation makes me wonder if having these config fields at all is useful.

On the other hand, changing the hard-coded defaults to use the configured usernames would make the config naming bad.

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