[ehutch79]

Are you suggesting running everything as root?

As in when you setup a new vm or whatnot, that you shouldn't create a user account to run thing as?

Does this include things like nginx not dropping privileges to run as a user?

[candiddevmike]

With just one user managing the server, for sysadmin tasks like SSH, use root, especially if you're going to sudo everything you do anyways. For services, they should still run as unprivileged users.