groupadd/useradd in FreeBSD?

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Thu Jul 28 14:28:57 GMT 2005


In the last episode (Jul 28), Xu Qiang said:
> Btw, Just think of this problem: 
> 
> Although I have added the user "mysql" to my machine, I didn't set
> its password. When does this newly added user get his/her password
> and change it?

No-one usually logs in as the mysql user, so you don't need to set one.
Mysqld will automatically setuid() itself to the "mysql" user when it
starts up.

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


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