On 1/9/2014 03:50, John Doe wrote:
Default MySQL installation on CentOS sets /bin/bash as shell. I'm on a user cleanup task where I want reduce unneeded privileges to users.
Its password should be locked.
I just tested here on an EL6 VM that didn't have mysql-server on it before:
# grep mysql /etc/shadow mysql:!!:16079::::::
I tried to investigate further by taking a look at the mysql-server spec file, but apparently CentOS doesn't ship with a source repo configured:
$ yumdownloader --source mysql-server ....noise noise noise.... No source RPM found for mysql-server-5.1.71-1.el6.i686
I looked in CentOS-Base.repo, and don't see one I can enable.
Also, connections to vault.centos.org are timing out right now, so I can't build a .repo file entry by hand.
So, lacking real information, I will make a wild guess as to why this happened: someone got lazy modifying an adduser/useradd command in the mysql.spec file.