Ritu Kamboj wrote:
> Hi,
> I am integrating MySQL 5.0.45 into Nevada.
>
> The MySQL installation expects that a user named 'mysql' exist under the
> group 'mysql'.
>
That's in order to use it or in order to build it? If it's needed
to build it then you'll need to update the build tools in ON, in which
case you probably should just add the user/group into the base
files in ON anyway (see usr/src/cmd/Adm). You'll see webservd
and postgres there for that reason - I believe they ship files
owned by those users thus they had to update the tools to know
about them so the packages and proto areas matched (see
usr/src/tools/protocmp/stdusers.c).
Actually if you do that as well, even though you wouldn't need such
changes for nevada, you might want to update the tools anyway
if you will be trying to get mysql into an s10 update (where
the proto area and packages still must match users and groups).
If you just need the mysql user/group in order to run mysql,
then I'd think it would be ok to run useradd and friends provided
you can tell them to use an alternate root (like the pkgadd -R
option). You have to be able to do that since your package may
or may not be installing on /. Hmm and I don't see that useradd
has such an option via a quick look, so it may be you have to
just update the base file in ON anyway.
Mike
