04-16-2025, 09:20 PM
I'm old school and I practice least privileged id access on all my servers. If I want to poke around without any fear of accidentally overwriting configuration files or generally munging up the entire install, I prefer to use an account that is guaranteed to not have write permissions to any of the configuration or data directories.
An alternative reason for it is simply to cut down on the number of questions from new users such as myself when they add a user (because if they can, they will) and do not have the expertise to track down the cause when things suddenly stop working. I did see a couple of posts regarding this when I first shot myself in the foot and I was able to track down the cause but a lot of people would not be able to do so and could end up abandoning the player altogether.
An alternative reason for it is simply to cut down on the number of questions from new users such as myself when they add a user (because if they can, they will) and do not have the expertise to track down the cause when things suddenly stop working. I did see a couple of posts regarding this when I first shot myself in the foot and I was able to track down the cause but a lot of people would not be able to do so and could end up abandoning the player altogether.
