Quote from: LoyceV on Today at 12:27:11 PM

Quote from: Satofan44 on Today at 12:14:39 PM

Don't let perfect be the enemy of good.

Using a user-account instead of root is the basics of the basics. What you're recommending isn't "good", it's bad practice. It really doesn't do justice to the effort you put into this topic, and I don't think you fully grasp the imporance: your entire system security is at jeopardy this way, while you're dealing with irreversible digital cash.

I am not saying that my recommendation on running root good, I was trying to say that the guide is good... as for the second part, I see this just a bit differently. Nobody should be denying the fact that it is risky, but it does not necessarily help in dealing with newbies this way. I've dealt with many over the years, and they even get confused about what their current directory is. Lips sealed

Then it becomes a balancing act of how you will approach these things in every Linux guide. As I said, most guides do not mention anything about it. There are trade-off between all options.

Push the user to create user account without a proper explanation. They probably ignore it for other things they do.
Push the user to create user account and provide a thorough explanation. Each guide will get much bigger which may scare newbies away and they will be repetitive.
Push the user to create user account with a link to a proper explanation... and so on the list goes.

I will add it with an external link and I hope that they learn though.

Quote from: LoyceV on Today at 12:27:11 PM

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I'll consider it.

That's something

For what it's worth: recommending to run anything as root is the reason I didn't drop 42 Merits on your topic.

It was not really my intention to make a recommendation for that Cry

, it is just the way I verified all the commands work and how I did it myself to get a working configuration (there's no harm doing that on a server that has nothing running and gets shut down when the experiment is over). As I explained in the guide, I didn't just go and collect commands to stitch them up into something that may work. In any case, please keep in mind that with all my replies I am not trying to say that I should not make this upgrade. I am just showing how it came to be and some thoughts that I have generally on this topic and issues that I have had dealing with people and Linux. A small note, just in case that some replies come off too strong. The first version had even more fragments and root blunders, luckily you didn't see it. Embarrassed

I will redo all the steps myself as a new user to verify that everything works as advertised here, I’d appreciate it if you could take another look then.