Millwood;286703 Wrote: > > What is the advantage of adding the squeezecenter uid and running as > squeezecenter?
It's a basic server security approach -- limiting potential harm. The advantage is that you have far less to lose if there are any bugs in SqueezeCenter or any third-party plugins you install (especially if you only grant the SC7 user write privileges over the preference, cache, and playlist directories). If SC7 ran as your account and there were bugs, you'd stand to lose your music, all your personal documents,... Worse yet would be running as the 'root' admin user -- any bug could potentially delete everything on your computer. -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ free plugins: http://www.tux.org/~peterw/#slim AllQuiet BlankSaver FuzzyTime PlayLog PowerCenter/BottleRocket SaverSwitcher SleepFade StatusFirst SyncOptions VolumeLock ------------------------------------------------------------------------ peterw's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2107 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=45707 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
