Re: Changing MySQL debian-sys-maint

Hmm, I just tried. It works, but a sys-maint-user gets recreated by 
debconf even though it's not used, which makes it useless. I tried to 
delete it, and even deleted /etc/mysql/debian.cnf just to see what 
happens. Guess what? It still gets recreated. Reading through the 
postinst-scripts I found out this is done by MySQL-Queries, but how is 
it able to create a user without having a working root-login?

Am 04.08.2011 10:31, schrieb Laurence Southon:
> On 04/08/11 03:40, Bachsau WebWorX wrote:
>> I'm talking about changing the username
>
> Sorry, answered the wrong question!
>
> The username is not hard coded in the debian-start script, or the mysql
> script in /etc/logrotate.d.
>
> My reading of the mysql-server postinst script at
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/mysql-server-5.0.postinst is that the username amd
> password in /etc/mysql/debian.cnf do not get replaced if the file exists
> and the contents are correct. That section of the script is the same for
> mysql-server-5.1.
>
> So it *looks like* you could change that username, though whether
> preservation will still be true for future upgardes is another question.
>
> Regards,
>
> LS