From 52a0f5e2f3b787f7ebf4ffbb0d7def0b75958c0e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: D3m0nKingx Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2017 22:42:37 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Update HOWTO.md For security reasons its best to run the server with its own unprivileged user profile. (System users will be created with no aging information in /etc/shadow, and their numeric identifiers are chosen in the SYS_UID_MIN-SYS_UID_MAX range, defined in /etc/login.defs, instead of UID_MIN-UID_MAX (and their GID counterparts for the creation of groups) --- HOWTO.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/HOWTO.md b/HOWTO.md index e9e6490a..886c303a 100644 --- a/HOWTO.md +++ b/HOWTO.md @@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ We will also use the `~/bin` directory to keep locally installed files (others might want to use `/usr/local/bin` instead). We will download source code files to the `~/src` directory. - $ sudo adduser stratis --disabled-password + $ sudo adduser --system --group --create-home --disabled-password stratis $ sudo apt-get install git $ sudo su - stratis $ mkdir ~/bin ~/src