Can be dangerous to use the default ubuntu user in EC2 to do git clone?

Question

So I have spun up a simple ubuntu EC2 istance with lamp.
I installed everything with apt-get as root sudo su

Now I have to clone the repository of the website, ie:

git clone ...

inside a dir in /var/www/...

Can I do this as ubuntu, or should I create another user and do git clone with this user?

Answer 1

if you can use root then it means you can also create user with specific privileges. I strongly suggest you to download dynamic content by user with only required privileges