Re: useradd for mysql

2007-01-16 Thread blfsuser
Hi. I would like to say a big thank you to all those who helped with my useradd problem. It's now fixed. I simply installed the book version over the later version I had originally used and left all the configuration as it was. It seems to work ok now. Randy - I had to google FBBG! Now I know. I'

Re: useradd for mysql

2007-01-16 Thread Barius Drubeck
On Monday 15 January 2007 23:01, blfsuser wrote: > On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 15:41 -0600, Randy McMurchy wrote: > > blfsuser wrote these words on 01/15/07 15:32 CST: > > Thanks again Randy. I've just had a closer look at /etc/group and > it would appear that when I add user 'username' the system create

Re: useradd for mysql

2007-01-15 Thread blfsuser
On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 15:41 -0600, Randy McMurchy wrote: > blfsuser wrote these words on 01/15/07 15:32 CST: > Thanks again Randy. I've just had a closer look at /etc/group and it would appear that when I add user 'username' the system creates a group 'username' with the same gid as the uid. Is th

Re: useradd for mysql

2007-01-15 Thread Randy McMurchy
blfsuser wrote these words on 01/15/07 15:32 CST: > is this to upgrade version 4.0.18 to version 4.0.18.1 ? If so its no > good since that's what I've already got. I have no idea. I've never messed with anything other than 4.0.15. LFS SVN uses 4.0.17, so it must be fairly stable. > Another thou

Re: useradd for mysql

2007-01-15 Thread blfsuser
On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 15:16 -0600, Randy McMurchy wrote: > blfsuser wrote these words on 01/15/07 14:51 CST: > > > I think it may be something to do with cracklib, linuxpam or shadow and > > cracklib-2.8.9 > > Linux-PAM-0.99.4.0 > > shadow-4.0.18.1 > > This is a known bug in Shadow-4.0.18. Debia

Re: useradd for mysql

2007-01-15 Thread Barius Drubeck
On Monday 15 January 2007 21:51, blfsuser wrote: > I'm starting to build mysql-5.0.33 and use the commands from > blfs-svn-20070111 as follows: > > groupadd -g 40 mysql > > and the groupadd works fine. When I issue the command > > useradd -c "MySQL Server" -d /dev/null -g mysql -s /bin/false -u 40