How do I change user?

[dry_humor]

Hi there (first question - please be gentle!),

In the Fedora part of the start guide it states:

"By default the Subsonic process is run as the root user. To improve security it is strongly advised that you run it as a dedicated user with less powerful privileges. You can specify this user by setting the SUBSONIC_USER variable in /etc/sysconfig/subsonic.

Note that non-root users are by default not allowed to use ports below 1024. Also make sure to grant the user write permissions in the music directories, otherwise changing album art and tags will fail."

I have located the file containing SUBSONIC_USER=root (i.e. it is still in the default state). A few questions:

1) Is all I have to do in this file simply replace root with some other username?
2) (Basic linux question) I imagine I need to have somehow set up a user with that name on my system - how do I do that?
3) How do I grant the permissions in the music directories to that user and specify what ports (not below 1024) that the user can use?
4) Does the username have to be the same as any of the usernames set up in the subsonic GUI I've been working with in my browser (in which I've already created a non-admin user)?

I have the vaguest knowledge of linux but only from using high performance computer clusters and all the admin stuff as always been handled by my brilliant administrators. I'm a bit shamefaced at the simplicity of these questions...

Any help very gratefully received - thanks in advance!

[lonesomerider]

to create user

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sudo adduser newuser
sudo passwd newuser
sudo chown -R newuser /subsonic


you have also give read access to newuser to the folders containing the music

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chmod -R 755 /musicfolder


gives read access to anybody

regarding the port, it is best to use a reverseproxy, eg apache, see: https://blog.lundscape.com/2009/05/configure-a-reverse-proxy-with-apache/

like this, if apache is set up correctly and firewall allows it, you are able to access subsonic over http and/or https without any change to subsonic