userid for mysql? or not?
There's a long-standing bug against mysql that the server daemon
should run as a user, not as root. There's an upstream beta that makes
this a configure option, so my plan was to wait until it was stable
enough to release. It now is (but, no, I don't plan to put it in
slink... I'm putting it in experimental until the freeze).
Now I'd like a user id defined to be in base-passwd in the 0-99 range
for mysql, like those for postgres and msql. But before I request
that, I wonder if we really need separate user ids for each database
package? Would it be sufficient to have a single id (say, 'sql') for
all the database packages, similar to the 'mail' id?
Scott
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