On Monday 09 August 2010, Joshua D. Drake elucidated thus: > On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 10:09 -0600, Scott Ribe wrote: > > It's not a requirement, just a reasonable default. > > The actual requirement is: > > Thou shall not use a privelaged user, e.g; Administrator or UID = 0. > > Not only is that a reasonable default, MySQL is broken because of > theirs. > > Joshua D. Drake Hmm...I've always seen MySQL run under the user mysql. Of course, mysqld_safe (the script that restarts mysql if it crashes) starts as root, but the actually binary runs as mysql. j -- Joshua Kugler Part-Time System Admin/Programmer http://www.eeinternet.com PGP Key: http://pgp.mit.edu/ ID 0x73B13B6A -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
