On 1/4/2014 9:57 PM, Chris Bannister wrote:
On Sat, Jan 04, 2014 at 08:56:14PM -0500, Jerry Stuckle wrote:On 1/1/2014 10:24 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:System administration is hardly mundane. It is often misunderstood (as in this thread) but very important work.Setting up a phpmyadmin config file is hardly "system administration". It's configuration affects only itself, not the entire system.Can any average user joe bloggs configure phpmyadmin? If not (and I suspect not, otherwise pandemonium is the result) then it is a system administration task!
Only in Debian is phpMyAdmin owned by root. And no, it does NOT have to be configured by the system administrator. A website administrator could configure it, for instance.
Just like changing the date/time IS A system administration task! You don't want the average joe bloggs changing the date/time whenever it takes their fancy!
Changing the date affects everything in the system. Changing the phpMyAdmin configuration only affects phpMyAdmin. The two do NOT have similar effects.
Jerry