Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 02:23:51 +0200 (CEST) From: albi@scii.nl To: "jekillen" <jekillen@prodigy.net> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: System user creation Message-ID: <33259.217.19.30.147.1145233431.squirrel@aseed.demon.nl>
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> I am trying to create a system user for a program to use. > I haven't found any specific instructions for doing this in the FreeBSD manual or Absolute FreeBSD. > The program exits with an error saying it can't create/write to a pid f= ile. > I believe it is the way I used adduser to create it and I don't know what I did wrong. I assigned it the class bin and disabled the password and assigned none as the home dir. > To remove mystery it is MySQL I am trying to get running. it's a bit unclear what you're trying to do, mysql already runs as a "non-privileged" user normally if you want to restrict access to your mysql-database then you can just create a user in mysql and give that user certain permissions (root in mysql !=3D root in FreeBSD) if you really want to run mysql-server as a new user you probably need to change mysql-config settings or put that user in the group mysql (and adjust permissions for mysql-files and dirs accordingly)
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