Am Freitag, 8. Januar 2016, 10:51:49 CET schrieb Martin Steigerwald: > I am not sure which other use cases exists tough for skipping the use of > the maintainer scripts. One case is when you want to have mysqld be > running as ordinary user instead of as root, storing the data within the > user home directory or elsewhise and being able to backup and restore the > database with ordinary user rights this way. Whether someone else does this > I don´t know.
Correction here, I see that MariadDB´s mysqld is running as mysql user on my server (which matches what I would expect and AFAIK is part of the reason of the debian-sys-maint user. But other than that my comment still applies. -- Martin
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