On Thu, December 21, 2006 02:40, Tony Nelson wrote: > 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. -- That´s not the problem. The problem resides in the mysql passsword which is needed to run the sql file which contains some instructions like, create databases, tables... Manuel