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Odoo 11 Development Essentials - Third Edition
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Odoo 11 Development Essentials - Third Edition

by Daniel Reis
March 2018
Beginner to intermediate
336 pages
8h 22m
English
Packt Publishing
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Preparing a dedicated system user

A good security practice is to run Odoo using a dedicated user, with no special privileges on the system.

We need to create the system and database users for that:

$ sudo adduser --disabled-password --gecos "Odoo" odoo
$ sudo su -c "createuser odoo" postgres
$ createdb --owner=odoo odoo-prod

Here, odoo is the username and odoo-prod is the name of the database supporting our Odoo instance.

The odoo user was made the owner of the odoo-prod database. This means that it has create and drop privileges over that database, including the ability to drop the full database. If you are running a multitenant server, you should create an odoo-like specific system user for each tenant.

Odoo is designed to work correctly ...
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