Re: [Refdb-devel] upgrading the main database

[Markus H. <mar...@mh...>]

Hi David,

David Nebauer <dav...@sw...> was heard to say:

> refdbd is now failing unless a username is supplied.  Here is the
> feedback if there is no username:
[...]
> refdbd has not previously required a username when running an sqlite
> backend.
>

refdbd only requires a username if you use the -a or -c switches. In this case
no client connection can provide the username and password required to connect
to the database server. However, you are right that this does not make much
sense in the case of SQLite. Actually refdbd attempts to guess a username using
the getlogin() function if none is provided. This is sufficient on all systems
that I've tested so far. I have no idea why this fails on your system. I've
changed refdbd to use a dummy username "root" if getlogin() fails. Please check
whether this fixes the problem.

> When a spurious username is supplied it attempts to run but still fails:
>
[...]
>
> The database location is correct.
>

Do you have write permissions in the database directory? I see no other reason
why this should fail. I've tested this on FreeBSD and Windows/Cygwin
successfully. I'll give it a try on the weekend on a Debian box to make sure.

regards,
Markus

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