On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 01:52:37PM +0200, Dobermann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am a french student in information technology. I'm currently  
> developping an application which will be distributed on a FreeSBIE  
> LiveCD.
> I have to run a MySQL database and an Apache webserver on it. This is  
> not a problem, it's quite alright.
> The only problem I have is that MySQL refuses to run as root, so I  
> have to create a mysql user on the FreeSBIE system.
> I tried to edit manually /etc/passwd and /etc/master.passwd, adding a  
> simple user as in my production box, but the user is not recognized  
> on the live cd... (chown returns a "mysql bad argument" error on a md  
> directory)
> 
> Is there any action to perform to make my user recognized ?

editing passwd and master.passwd isn't enough, you'll need to rebuild
the user's db:

chroot $FREESBIEBASEDIR
vipw [add your user]
vi /etc/group [add your group]

Then build the iso.

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