Do you have a separate admin account on your services?

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?

30 points · 6 comments · view on lemmy.world

6 Comments

Mautobu@victoriagaming.ca · 17 pts · 3y

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 pts · 3y

Yes. Separation of privilege wherever I can.

LastoftheDinosaurs@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 3y (4 replies)
[ removed ]
koper@feddit.nl · 7 pts · 3y (3 replies)

Never repeat anything 👍

marvin@lemmy.sdf.org · 3 pts · 3y (1 reply)

Never repeat anything.

SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 3y

Never repeat anything

Why?

Death to the **************** -Anything

Ohhhh…. Yeah… don’t repeat that guy

LastoftheDinosaurs@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
[ removed ]
marcos@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y

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.

LastoftheDinosaurs@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
[ removed ]
LastoftheDinosaurs@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
[ removed ]