Re: Remove 'debian-sys-maint' Account?
Hi Carlos, The debian-sys-maint account is used for two things that I am aware of: 1) the /etc/init.d/mysql stop command uses it to perform a controlled shutdown of MySQL. 2) on execution of /etc/init.d/mysql start, it uses this account to run a CHECK TABLE on all of your tables The first function is quite handy, the second is downright annoying, especially if you have any large tables, as these will take a long time to check. There is a way of stopping it from performing the table check without disabling the maintenance account, but I can't remember it off-hand. Thanks On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 13:15 -0500, Carlos Williams wrote: I am using Debian 'Squeeze' / Testing on with MySQL 5.1.41-3 installed. It is a fresh install and I was checking all the system accounts and noticed that Debian has a 'debian-sys-maint' account on 'localhost'. Has anyone ever removed this account? Do I need it or can I safely remove this account? I don't understand why it's there. I don't want to break MySQL even though there is no data or databases on this machine but I would like to keep this as clean as possible. Thanks for any input. -Carlos -- Ian Simpson System Administrator MyJobGroup -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=arch...@jab.org
Re: Remove 'debian-sys-maint' Account?
Hi ALL, You will find all the details you need to set up debian-sys-maint account under /etc/mysql/debian.cnf GRANT SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, CREATE, DROP, RELOAD, SHUTDOWN, PROCESS, FILE, REFERENCES, INDEX, ALTER, SHOW DATABASES, SUPER, CREATE TEMPORARY TABLES, LOCK TABLES, EXECUTE, REPLICATION SLAVE, REPLICATION CLIENT ON *.* TO 'debian-sys-maint'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY PASSWORD 'password' WITH GRANT OPTION Regards, Igor BTW, this is my First post. On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 6:15 PM, Carlos Williams carlosw...@gmail.comwrote: I am using Debian 'Squeeze' / Testing on with MySQL 5.1.41-3 installed. It is a fresh install and I was checking all the system accounts and noticed that Debian has a 'debian-sys-maint' account on 'localhost'. Has anyone ever removed this account? Do I need it or can I safely remove this account? I don't understand why it's there. I don't want to break MySQL even though there is no data or databases on this machine but I would like to keep this as clean as possible. Thanks for any input. -Carlos -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=nixofort...@googlemail.com
Re: Remove 'debian-sys-maint' Account?
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 7:15 PM, Carlos Williams carlosw...@gmail.comwrote: I am using Debian 'Squeeze' / Testing on with MySQL 5.1.41-3 installed. It is a fresh install and I was checking all the system accounts and noticed that Debian has a 'debian-sys-maint' account on 'localhost'. Has anyone ever removed this account? Do I need it or can I safely remove this account? I don't understand why it's there. I don't want to break MySQL even though there is no data or databases on this machine but I would like to keep this as clean as possible. As Ian already indicated, this is an administrative account used by Debian for the system operations they do. It'll probably also be used when you upgrade packages and similar things. I would recommend that you keep it, as it's only there for localhost anyway, and the credentials are in /etc/mysql/debian.cnf with restricted readability. I also tend to use those credentials for any maintenance scripts I run myself, so in that way it actually prevents clutter for me :-) -- Bier met grenadyn Is als mosterd by den wyn Sy die't drinkt, is eene kwezel Hy die't drinkt, is ras een ezel
Remove 'debian-sys-maint' Account?
I am using Debian 'Squeeze' / Testing on with MySQL 5.1.41-3 installed. It is a fresh install and I was checking all the system accounts and noticed that Debian has a 'debian-sys-maint' account on 'localhost'. Has anyone ever removed this account? Do I need it or can I safely remove this account? I don't understand why it's there. I don't want to break MySQL even though there is no data or databases on this machine but I would like to keep this as clean as possible. Thanks for any input. -Carlos -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=arch...@jab.org
