hi alexis, On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 03:28:52PM +0200, Alexis Sukrieh wrote: > I'm the maintainer of the bugzilla package and I recently tried to fix a > grave bug (which renders the package uninstallable). After > investigating, I realized that the bug came from the fact that I use the > user debian-sys-maint in my postinst script to grant privileges to a > newly created user. > > This used to work perfectly, but now, it doesn't.
of course, christian can negate what i say here, but it's my
impression/opinion that the debian-sys-maint account is only for internal
management within the mysql package (for stuff like startup/shutdown,
log rotation, and the like), and that it was never intended to be used
as a general purpose tool for packagers. furthermore, i think it
may be possible that the local administrator may modify this account to
restrict the privileges further, in which case you have the same problem
and can't blame us :)
i would strongly recommend that you take a look at where
dbconfig-common is and see if it can do what you want.
sean
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