There are notes on various aspects to this in the weewk wiki <https://github.com/weewx/weewx/wiki/Run-as-a-non-root-user-using-init>
On Wednesday, 18 January 2023 at 9:23:29 am UTC+10 Wayne wrote: > Hello - I am a new weewx user with medium proficiency in linux. Running on > a Raspberry Pi 4 installed from DEB package. > > Is there any benefit to creating a superuser account specifically for > weewx instead of running as "root"? It seems to me it would be a better > practice for using rsync to transfer files to an http server on another > machine. Or maybe it's not worth the effort. Comments?? > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to weewx-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/d6825005-bee3-42b6-8e8a-6a81c62b02cen%40googlegroups.com.
