From 4bd441850c3350c1d4a95109edcce6d557e8237b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "guilhem@mysql.com" <>
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 17:07:11 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Fix for BUG#4038 "rpm postinstall script leaves files as
 owned by root": the rpm postinstall script must call mysql_install_db with
 --user=mysql, and mysql_install_db must then pass this to mysqld. Otherwise,
 mysqld runs as root, and if you have --log-bin=somewhere_out_of_var_lib_mysql
 it creates binlog files owned by root in this dir, and this dir is not fixed
 by the 'chmod mysql', so files remain owned by root, and later mysqld
 (running as 'mysql') can't read them. I'm hardcoding 'mysql' in the
 postinstall script, but it's already hardcoded there in many places (see the
 useradd and chown) so it's ok.

---
 scripts/mysql_install_db.sh | 6 +++++-
 support-files/mysql.spec.sh | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/mysql_install_db.sh b/scripts/mysql_install_db.sh
index c03049c6a91..931c8f21a92 100644
--- a/scripts/mysql_install_db.sh
+++ b/scripts/mysql_install_db.sh
@@ -38,6 +38,9 @@ parse_arguments() {
       --basedir=*) basedir=`echo "$arg" | sed -e 's/^[^=]*=//'` ;;
       --ldata=*|--datadir=*) ldata=`echo "$arg" | sed -e 's/^[^=]*=//'` ;;
       --user=*) user=`echo "$arg" | sed -e 's/^[^=]*=//'` ;;
+                # Note that this will be passed to mysqld so that it runs
+                # as 'user' (crucial e.g. if log-bin=/some_other_path/
+                # where a chown of datadir won't help)
       --skip-name-resolve) ip_only=1 ;;
       --verbose) verbose=1 ;;
       --rpm) in_rpm=1 ;;
@@ -332,7 +335,8 @@ fi
 
 echo "Installing all prepared tables"
 if eval "$mysqld $defaults $mysqld_opt --bootstrap --skip-grant-tables \
-         --basedir=$basedir --datadir=$ldata --skip-innodb --skip-bdb $args" << END_OF_DATA
+         --basedir=$basedir --datadir=$ldata --skip-innodb --skip-bdb \
+         --user=$user $args" << END_OF_DATA
 use mysql;
 $c_d
 $i_d
diff --git a/support-files/mysql.spec.sh b/support-files/mysql.spec.sh
index 714992e0826..5ddc19580f3 100644
--- a/support-files/mysql.spec.sh
+++ b/support-files/mysql.spec.sh
@@ -395,7 +395,7 @@ useradd -M -r -d $mysql_datadir -s /bin/bash -c "MySQL server" mysql 2> /dev/nul
 chown -R mysql $mysql_datadir
 
 # Initiate databases
-mysql_install_db -IN-RPM
+mysql_install_db -IN-RPM --user=mysql
 
 # Change permissions again to fix any new files.
 chown -R mysql $mysql_datadir