Details
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Improvement
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Resolution: Won't Fix
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Major - P3
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Description
While our RPM and DEB installations create the 'mongod' or 'mongodb' user, we don't talk about this in the documentation. I'd suggest the following:
- Explicitly stating in the Linux installation guide that we recommend creating a user to own the MongoDB binaries
- Explicitly stating that we recommend against running 'mongod' as the 'root' user
- Mentioning that it's OK to give that user a login, even if the RPM install does not