Re: Changing MySQL debian-sys-maint

[Laurence Southon <ls@southon.uk.net>]

On 04/08/11 03:40, Bachsau WebWorX wrote:
> I'm talking about changing the username

Sorry, answered the wrong question!

The username is not hard coded in the debian-start script, or the mysql
script in /etc/logrotate.d.

My reading of the mysql-server postinst script at
/var/lib/dpkg/info/mysql-server-5.0.postinst is that the username amd
password in /etc/mysql/debian.cnf do not get replaced if the file exists
and the contents are correct. That section of the script is the same for
mysql-server-5.1.

So it *looks like* you could change that username, though whether
preservation will still be true for future upgardes is another question.

Regards,

LS
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Laurence Southon
Tiger Computing, Bexley
www.tiger-computing.co.uk