what good is creating other users than root?

[CaptainTivo]

I have been running with root as the only user for 6 years.  Today I created a new user using the Users->Add user tab in the GUI.  I tried logging into this user account using PUTTY from my PC but it just closes the window.  I tried logging using the "terminal" tab in the GUI and it only logs in as root.  I logged in as root and did "su hunter" but when I issue "whoami" it says root. So it clearly did not create a Linux user.  So my question is:  what does the User tab (add user) actually do and why would I want to do it?

 

Thanks.

 

[remotevisitor]

So that you can restrict access to shares to specific users.

[Squid]

To elaborate, all access from the command prompt (and to the webUI) is always via the root user.  unRaid's user system is not "users" the way that a vanilla linux install thinks of them.