From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 28 14:28:57 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B592616A41F for ; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 14:28:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E6EE43D58 for ; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 14:28:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.13.1/8.13.3) id j6SESud5029337; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 09:28:56 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 09:28:56 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Xu Qiang Message-ID: <20050728142855.GB81656@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20050728095226.152C61D938@imss.sgp.fujixerox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050728095226.152C61D938@imss.sgp.fujixerox.com> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: groupadd/useradd in FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 14:28:57 -0000 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. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com