another argument in favour of a dedicated user for weewx software. all my weewx software runs as user ‘weewx’; i log in as weewx when i have a work session on it (the default on RPi is that $HOME/bin is added to PATH if it exists, so /home/weewx/bin gets picked up automatically when log in as weewx)
it also saves me accidentally stomping on weewx files when i am poking around as my normal user > On 22 Apr 2021, at 11:41 am, 'Cameron D' via weewx-development > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Downsides? in reality, probably none as the likelihood of name clashes are > slim. > However, it would probably be against the general principals, because those > are for all users on a system, while typically only a single user might have > permission to access the system. > > For that user the correct place would be in their own profile files. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-development" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-development/CD3F92FB-634D-4C0C-90B5-87B4F4FB452F%40gmail.com.
