RE: [Nss-mysql-users] Cannot start mysql with nss-mysql installed

[Dan Slatford]

Just made a discovery:

This only happens if nsswitch.conf also looks up groups in a database as
well as /etc/group

mysql is run as mysql user. In /etc/passwd I have:

mysql:x:70:70:MySQL Server:/var/lib/mysql:/bin/false

And in /etc/group:

mysql:x:70:

What the heck am I missing here?! /usr/local/mysql is chown root.mysql
downwards, and /var/lib/mysql is chown mysql.mysql


-----Original Message-----
From: address@hidden
[mailto:address@hidden On Behalf Of
Jason Clifford
Sent: 16 August 2002 14:14
To: Dan Slatford
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: RE: [Nss-mysql-users] Cannot start mysql with nss-mysql
installed


On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, Dan Slatford wrote:

> > What order do you have the configuration in your /etc/nsswitch.conf
> file?
> 
> passwd:         files mysql
> group:          files mysql
> shadow:         files mysql
> 
> protocols:      db files
> services:       db files
> ethers:         db files
> rpc:            db files

Are you using nss_db? I very much doubt that would be the cause of the 
problem if you're not.

Most have you checked the file permissions on all of the mysql data 
dirs, files, config files? If they are owned by a user that only exists
in 
the mysql passwd table it may fail.

Is there any conflict with a user being listed in both /etc/passwd and 
mysql?

You dont have anything odd in your /etc/pwdb.conf do you?

Other than these possibiities I cannot think of anything that would
cause 
the problem.

Jason Clifford
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