Couchbase user created on Linux as part of install

Couchbase Server
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Using a specific user for a particular application is pretty common behaviour - the principal of least privilege. For example it’s common to have a web server running under the http user.

You can administer this in number of different ways, as appropriate to your environment:

  1. Using sudo to give your normal user account to the couchbase user
  2. Give the couchbase user a password (but not a login shell), and then simply su to couchbase once you’ve authed to the system.
  3. Just use the root account for any administration.
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