groupadd/useradd in FreeBSD?

J. Martin Petersen jmp.lists at alvorlig.dk
Thu Jul 28 09:27:17 GMT 2005


Xu Qiang wrote:
> Hi, all: 
> 
> I am installing MySQL 4.1.13 into my machine. It has finished successfully. But before or after that, I need create some user account rather than root by the command "groupadd mysql" and "useradd -g mysql mysql". 
> 
> However, these commands are not found in my FreeBSD 5.3 system. 
> 
> Any help on this issue?

You're looking for adduser(8). If you install MySQL from ports, though, 
the user will be added automatically.

Martin


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