Talk:Guides/Don’t Starve Together Dedicated Servers/@comment-85.69.182.203-20150209210614/@comment-96953-20150214095701

It's a good security practice. The idea is that you can limit the steam account to things that only the steam account needs access to. If you run the DST under your own user account, then the DST server will have access to everything you do, which means that if it's hacked, the hacker will have access to all of your personal files and, if you're an administrative user, administrative functionality that you have access to.

In fact, to be honest, I'd recommend creating an account called something like dontstarve to further isolate the game server from other steam stuff you might run, such as other game servers, but if you're only going to be running the Don't Starve Together dedicated server on the server, that might be going overboard for your needs. Nevertheless, it's highly recommended to run a service such as this on an account with very limited privileges.