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  1. Documentation
  2. DOCS-2731

Need to add additional information about the 'mongod' user to the documentation

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    • mongodb-2.6
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      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

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            ernie.hershey@mongodb.com Ernie Hershey
            william.zola@10gen.com William Zola
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              7 years, 29 weeks ago