Ulf Dittmer wrote:Start by running each server under its own account that does not have root privileges. For example, you'd have users tomcat and mongodb. Then add those accounts to groups as appropriate for them have the data access they need.
I did not yet create seperate users for mongodb and my application server. I will do them now. Do these users need to have a home directory? I guess not as they are just a fictional user and I will not be doing any normal stuff that I do with the user joe.