On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 02:20:35PM +0100, David Cho-Lerat wrote: > Thanks a lot for your answers. > > I know this looks ugly, but don't worry it's not really meant for Debian, > I'm working on our of our company's packages ;) > > > that doesn't > > sound like a great idea. What are you doing? > > > > well actually the package will install some software that has to be run by > a specific user, and this user has to have a password so that some > admins can log into the account for specific tasks, but not every user > of the system.
In that case: set a random password for the user, but set up ~/.ssh/authorized_keys with the public SSH keys for your sysadmin staff... If they're worth their salt, they WILL be using key-based logins - no decent admin WANTS to remember hundreds of passwords, or run a site with well-known-passwords everwhere. > >> 3. add/edit some MySQL tables without knowing the MySQL root password > >> > > Urgh. This sounds uglier and uglier :) Provide some SQL to achieve what > > you > > want in a file in the package, as a very first step. Make sure you've > > depended > > on MySQL. Will you know what the correct Database name will be? Can you > > guarantee > > it will exist? > > > > here's the thing : I'm setting up software that will require a certain > database > with certain tables to be present (specific to this app, so yes I know > which ones). > If MySQL is not installed, it will be installed as a dependency. If the > database & tables > are not present (first install), I create them (using a SQL file, like > you said), but if > MySQL is already running I don't want to have to stop it, do my changes and > restart it, I'd like to connect to the MySQL server as root and do the > changes live, > even if the root MySQL server has a password set. This sounds like some of your changes require a MySQL restart!? -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120822133549.GB19601@hawking
