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# Create and configure a Linux user on a cloud server

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### 💡 Security Best Practices

#### Create separate Linux user on remote server (as you learned in Linux module) 

   ▪ Every cloud platform configuration for their remote servers is different 

   ▪ On droplet, per default you work with the "root" user 

   ▪ Create a new "admin" user 

   ▪ Using the "admin" user, create own users for each application you run (e.g. nexus, jenkins, my-app) 

#### Give it only the permission it needs to run that application 

#### Don't work with the root user!

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