Bug 80568

Summary:	'mysql' user does not exist.
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Crutcher Dunnavant <crutcher+bugzilla>
Component:	mysql	Assignee:	Patrick Macdonald <patrickm>
Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Description Crutcher Dunnavant 2002-12-28 02:29:55 UTC

Description of problem:
The mysql daemon gets run as the 'mysql' user, which is not created by the
package at install time.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
3.23.53-3

Comment 1 Patrick Macdonald 2003-03-12 17:43:15 UTC

Hi Crutcher,

Are you sure you installed the mysql-server package.  The mysql user
is created when that package is installed.

This is the output from a clean RHL 8.0 installation:

[root@toll root]# su mysql
su: user mysql does not exist
[root@toll root]# rpm -qa | grep mysql
[root@toll root]# rpm -i /tmp/mysql-3.23.52-3.i386.rpm
/tmp/mysql-server-3.23.52-3.i386.rpm /tmp/perl-DBD-MySQL-2.1017-3.i386.rpm
[root@toll root]# su mysql
bash-2.05b$ whoami
mysql

The service mysqld start works fine as well.