# Plex did not create a linux user for itself?

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**Category:** Plex Media Server\
**Tags:** livetv-dvr, server-linux\
**Created:** [December 23, 2022, 8:31pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-did-not-create-a-linux-user-for-itself/823968 "2022-12-23T20:31:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![ChuckPa](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/chuckpa/32/79710_2.png) [@ChuckPa](https://forums.plex.tv/u/ChuckPa)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2022, 2:31am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-did-not-create-a-linux-user-for-itself/823968/14 "2022-12-24T02:31:34Z")

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> [@Linux Tips](https://forums.plex.tv/t/linux-tips/276247/2):
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> Using other hard drives (Windows or Linux) with PMS This How-To is written to help with Internal and External drives. It also is written to demonstrate how to cope with NTFS and EXT4 formatted drives. By logical extension, any format supported by Linux can be handled using the technique shown here. In all cases, the goal is to give user plex permission to read your media files which Linux doesn’t allow by default due to its strict security model. We will walk through the steps needed …

Hint: ANY top-level-directory which doesn’t conflict with something else AND makes sense to you 👍

I have `/nas` as the TLD for the boxes and then `/usb` for the USB devices.

It’s really however your mind and fingers work best 🙂

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