From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 5 14:38:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.gradwell.com (mail.gradwell.com [194.205.225.96]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2C21037BA1E for ; Wed, 5 Apr 2000 14:38:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dozprompt@onsea.com) Received: (qmail 24782 invoked from network); 5 Apr 2000 21:38:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO merlin.onsea.com) (212.188.143.113) by mail.gradwell.com with SMTP; 5 Apr 2000 21:38:33 -0000 Received: from localhost (dozprompt@localhost) by merlin.onsea.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA09130; Wed, 5 Apr 2000 22:38:49 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from dozprompt@onsea.com) X-Authentication-Warning: merlin.onsea.com: dozprompt owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 22:38:49 +0100 (BST) From: Cliff Rowley To: wbs Cc: John Daniels , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PHP and databases In-Reply-To: <000e01bf9f32$fc59fbc0$0900fea9@lorins.ild.telecom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I havent actually read the documentation, I have no need to do so, but the point was that the install process will actually be performed by root. Cliff Rowley - while (!asleep) { code(); } On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, wbs wrote: > The reference to mysql as a userid was a recommendation to create a mysql > user and group, then after installing as root, chown and all the mysql > stuff. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Cliff Rowley > To: John Daniels > Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Date: Wednesday, April 05, 2000 12:21 PM > Subject: Re: PHP and databases > > > >> Do I always have to be root when installing ports? I think that I saw > >> someone describe installing mysql under a "mysql" user. Is this > >> recommended? Are there other instances (i.e. other ports) where there > are > >> advantages to installing as other than root? > > > >In a word, yes. Regarding the mysql user, what it most likely means is > >that you run the mysql daemon under a 'mysql' user account - not actually > >installing it while being that user. > > > >You wouldnt be able to install anything unless your uid/gid was 0 > >anyhow... > > > >Cliff Rowley > > > >- while (!asleep) { code(); } > > > > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message