From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1H1nYP-0000VG-2c for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 02 Jan 2007 17:36:01 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id l02HXqtY026435; Tue, 2 Jan 2007 17:33:52 GMT Received: from popmail.jettissystems.com (popmail.jettissystems.com [38.118.146.212]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l02HVRs7000875 for ; Tue, 2 Jan 2007 17:31:28 GMT Received: from [10.23.0.103] (unknown [74.93.11.97]) by popmail.jettissystems.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E183B56D498 for ; Tue, 2 Jan 2007 09:31:26 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <459A7AB8.8060008@badapple.net> Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2007 09:31:04 -0600 From: kashani User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Problem upgrading mediawiki References: <20061231172041.GA24330@nibiru.local> <4598CCC5.2090908@armispiansystems.ca> <20070101174852.GA22582@nibiru.local> In-Reply-To: <20070101174852.GA22582@nibiru.local> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: defc2999-fa00-4fa9-a8b5-a87905342c0c X-Archives-Hash: e3446c91ccbe1dd3057814af0c38ab48 Enrico Weigelt wrote: > BTW: I'm a little bit confused why it needs root privileges to > add / change some tables. Isn't the database already owned by the > wiki's user ? ... strange ... Some people prefer to give their webapps limited insert, update, and delete access and it's likely that Mediawiki's updates require alter, create, drop, and file access which might be why they say to use an account with root privileges. kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list