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Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 15:50:39 -0600
From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
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Subject: Re: upgraded 6.2 and mysql lost all privileges
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In the last episode (Mar 06), Noah said:
> yeah - I have about 15 other user accounts specific to my mysql
> installation that were not in the /etc/passwd file.  where were those
> stored?

If you're just talking about mysql users, those are in
/var/db/mysql/mysql/user.* .  An OS upgrade shouldn't have touched
them at all.  Unless you reformatted /var or something :)

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	Dan Nelson
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