hey christian, On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 09:36:00AM +0200, Christian Hammers wrote: > That was correct in the past where this user really only had the RELOAD > and SHUTDOWN privileges but nowadays it also serves as a more general user > for e.g. packages that ask the user if they may create a database during > installation and the script that runs when starting the mysql server and > does a CHECK TABLES which also requires additional privileges.
i think after sarge is out we should revist this and see about stripping
away those extra privileges. hopefully by then my dbconfig-common
project will be catching on and everyone using the debian-sys-maint
account for package installation can be pointed at something easier.
sean
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