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Date:      Thu, 28 Jul 2005 09:28:56 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        Xu Qiang <Qiang.Xu@fujixerox.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: groupadd/useradd in FreeBSD?
Message-ID:  <20050728142855.GB81656@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <20050728095226.152C61D938@imss.sgp.fujixerox.com>
References:  <20050728095226.152C61D938@imss.sgp.fujixerox.com>

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In the last episode (Jul 28), Xu Qiang said:
> Btw, Just think of this problem: 
> 
> Although I have added the user "mysql" to my machine, I didn't set
> its password. When does this newly added user get his/her password
> and change it?

No-one usually logs in as the mysql user, so you don't need to set one.
Mysqld will automatically setuid() itself to the "mysql" user when it
starts up.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com



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