Is it necessary to install Alfresco as root user?

As we transition to the new Hyland Community, some post links may be temporarily disrupted as we finalize redirects. We apologize for the inconvenience and are working to resolve this as quickly as possible. Details.

ashokharnal

I have two questions:
a. Kindly let me know if it is necessary to install Alfresco 3.4.d as root user?
and,
b. Is it necessary to set SELinux disabled or in permissive mode?

Apparently, I find no problems when I am installing Alfresco as user other
than root. But as I intend to use it in a production environment, in the long run,
will there be some problem?

mrogers

No its fine.    There's another discussion in these forums dicussing "how to".

Don't know much about SELinux but alfresco should always have permissions restricted to only allow read/write access to the alfresco account and possibly other accounts can have read access like the account which backs up.