Re: help with packaging (preinst scripts)

[Denis Witt <denis.witt@concepts-and-training.de>]

On 22.08.2012 15:20, David Cho-Lerat wrote:

> well actually the package will install some software that has to be run by
> a specific user, and this user has to have a password so that some
> admins can log into the account for specific tasks, but not every user
> of the system.

Hi David,

you can create the user as shown in the exim example. The Admins can 
login with their normal users (or as root) and can "su" to the user:

su - yourusername --shell=/bin/bash

Regarding the SQL-Stuff. Just ask the user for the MySQL-Root-Password 
(and maybe the database name, and what to do if it already exists). I 
have no idea how to manage that, but it's possible and you can take a 
look at the phpmyadmin-Package how it works.

Bye.