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[grimmer@xxxxxxx (Lenz Grimmer)]

Hi,

On Sat, 12 Feb 2000, Keith Warno wrote:

> PS -- The mysql daemon doesn't need root privs to run.  It uses a high
> unprivledged port (3306) and doesn't require any
> accessible-only-by-root files or dirs.  SuSE (at least 6.2) runs the
> daemon as root which is lame. There is an option, --user, to run the
> mysql daemon as any given user.  Of course you need to ensure that
> tables, etc, can be read and written by whatever user you choose to
> run the daemon as.

Starting with SuSE Linux 6.3, we run MySQL as user "mysql".

Bye,
        LenZ


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