At 11:52 PM +0100 12/20/06, Manuel Arostegui Ramirez wrote: >El Miércoles, 20 de Diciembre de 2006 23:45, Tony Nelson escribió: >> At 1:39 PM -0600 12/20/06, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: >> >Manuel Arostegui Ramirez wrote: >> >> 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. >> > >> >No, I have not looked at it. But the problem you are running into is >> >because of the differences in the packaging systems. The RPM install >> >is designed to be run with no user interaction. This was a design >> >decision early in the development of the RPM packaging system. >> > >> >It is possible to have an install script ask for information if you >> >are doing a CLI installation, but you are not supposed to do it. >> >This breaks down when you use one of the GUI front-ends for RPM, or >> >use a batch job to install packages. >> > >> >One way around this is to have an install script that runs the first >> >time the package is used. Another way is to have the install script >> >detect what environment it being run in, and ether ask for the >> >password (cli), pop up a windows asking for it (GUI), or do an error >> >exit if it is being run from a batch file. You will also need to do >> >the same thing in the update and un-install scripts. Keep in mind >> >that you are not supposed to do this in an RPM... >> >> I don't understand why a password is needed. Installing a rpm is done as >> root. If some part of the rpm installation needs to run as a specific >> user, just su to that user (no password required) and run any needed >> commands as that user. Use a subshell and nothing special needs to be done >> after. > >No, I misunderstood myself. What I need is the root password of the mysql of >the system where the rpm is gonna be installed. >Why? Because I should run a sql file which will create some databases and some >tables and it must be done with the root of the mysql. When a RPM package is being installed, rpm is run by root. Any scripts it runs as part of the package, such as a post-install script, run as user root. Root can su to any other user. Just use the su command in the script. No password is needed. -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' The Great Writ <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' is no more. <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
