El Miércoles, 20 de Diciembre de 2006 18:10, Mikkel L. Ellertson escribió: > > Except for special cases where you can install as a user, you are > normally running as root when you install an RPM. You need to be > root to write to the bin and sbin directories. Yeah, I didn't explain myself correctly, It's nothing related with root password, just database one. > > Now, as far as configuring the database, that is a different problem > - you need to be able to access the database as a user with the > correct permissions to create databases and tables. If you know the > password, you can use the --password=<password> option for the mysql > command, or the equivalent if using another version of sql. Yeah, the problem is exactly that, obiusly, the package will be installed on machines which I have not under control, so that's why I'm interested in a way to ask for the password during the "rpm -i" process and then using it whith mysql -u root -p `password` > Also, the sql password for root does not have to be the same as the system > password for root. (When first installed, there may not be a root > password in the sql tables.) I know (see above) :) > > Getting the password interactively when doing an RPM install is a > problem because of the design of rpm, and the fact that it may be > running under a front-end program, or as part of a batch job. I can > remember long threads about this in the past... Have you seen for example nagios-mysql (debian package) it asks for user and password of the mysql, that's exactly what I want. Thanks -- Manuel Arostegui Ramirez. Electronic Mail is not secure, may not be read every day, and should not be used for urgent or sensitive issues.
