It is all about ease of use and security.
As handling user accounts is already not the beginner task, I would see reasonable not to grant any rights by default, as Pascal proposed.

Jan



On 3 November 2011 05:43, Pascal Heus <pascal.heus@gmail.com> wrote:
Christian:
Running 7.0.1 under Amazon Linux. I use the "basex" script to create a
new user. If I then call basexclient or use a pHp client with the new
credentials, I get an access denied. It works fine after I restart the
service.  Note that server is launched as a service using "basexhttp
-S". Could this make any difference?
best
*P


On 11/2/11 4:37 PM, Christian Grün wrote:
> Hi Pascal,
>
>> Just started to configure various user accounts. Does the server need a
>> restart in order for new accounts to be recognized?
> new user accounts are instantly activated.
>
>> Also, I would recommend the default privileges to be none or read at
>> best. New accounts should not be able to write to the DB by default.
> That could be changed pretty easily; what do others think?
> Christian
>