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The purpose of serveradmin is the catch-all place to setup things like scripts. It may also, depending on requirements for your organization be used to manually setup software like application servers.
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Our user convention is firstName.lastName, however, we chose to user serveradmin rather than server.admin for fast typing as this and similar accounts are often used via sudo.
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In a more security sensitive environment rather than just one serveradmin, we could setup consider distinct accounts ie for running a manual setup of tomcat, manual setup of postgressql etcapplications (ie tomcatadmin). |
Also, the serveradmin account is limited in that it can not use sudo. If an attacker compromises the application, sudo is still out of reach.
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