Do you have a separate admin account on your services? (lemmy.pe1uca.dev)

submitted 1 year ago by pe1uca@lemmy.pe1uca.dev to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I've been creating separate accounts for some of my selfhosted services, some are to further sub-divide the data, but for sure I always have an admin account and the account I use day to day.

What's your account creation schema?
What do you think about creating multiple accounts for your selfhosted services?

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[-] Mautobu@victoriagaming.ca 17 points 1 year ago

I have two services that my main account has zero admin rights on: gitlab and nextcloud. Both have, potentially, sensitive data owned by others. I've put massive passwords and MFA on both of those admin accounts. I figure if someone somehow harvests the session data or passwords and cracks 2fa on my account, that's the only one that will be affected.

[-] SeeJayEmm@lemmy.procrastinati.org 12 points 1 year ago

Yes. Separation of privilege wherever I can.

[-] LastoftheDinosaurs@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Different account w/ different password and different name everywhere. Never repeat anything.

[-] koper@feddit.nl 7 points 1 year ago

Never repeat anything 👍

[-] marvin 3 points 1 year ago

Never repeat anything.

[-] SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Never repeat anything

Why?

“Death to the ****************” -Anything

Ohhhh…. Yeah… don’t repeat that guy

[-] LastoftheDinosaurs@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I saw that lol. Damn ddos

[-] marcos@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

What powers an admin have to break your stuff when you only have a single other account?

Some times separating concerns is meaningless. Some times it's useful to have many accounts for a single user. Some other times the admin/normal user separation is useful. It does really vary.

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