hey dilinger (x3),

On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 03:29 -0500, Andres Salomon wrote:
> I find myself wanting to add multiple database users through
> dbconfig-common, in my postinst script.  I have multiple daemons
> accessing a mysql database.  I would like a separate user for each, so
> that I can tell what daemon is running what query based upon the user
> that's logged in.  I also want to only give the daemon users SELECT
> privileges, while dbconfig-common grants ALL to the user it creates.

> It would also be nice if there was a way to specify what privileges the
> database user(s) have.  I would think it would be pretty common for a
> package to want to create a single user with only SELECT privileges
> (say, a web app that the admin might not overly trust in terms of security).

yes, this would be a really cool feature.  feel free to start
brainstorming the implementation details :)


        sean

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