AlcugsInstall/Preparations

From Alcugs

This is the first part of the Alcugs server installation instructions.

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1. You will need a MySQL install. Use a recent version if possible.

You should set a password for the mysql root user and create a separate mysql user for the alcugs servers so that they don't access the MySQL-Database with root privileges.:

Bourne Shell
# to set the root password - you need to run this only once, but don't skip it!
mysql_secure_installation
# this will ask you for the root password you set above and log you in to the mysql server
# run this whenever you need to issue mysql commands
mysql -u root -p

Then create the databases and the mysql user with the following commands (fill in some random password):

SQL
 
CREATE DATABASE alcugs_auth;
CREATE DATABASE alcugs_vault;
CREATE USER 'alcugs'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'change_this_password';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON alcugs_auth.* TO 'alcugs'@'localhost';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON alcugs_vault.* TO 'alcugs'@'localhost';

2. Make sure you have the standard development tools installed. Some OS distributions might allow you to select a group of packages named something like "development", others like Debian have a meta-package called e.g. "build-essential". Otherwise, a hopefully complete list of tools you will need is:

• g++
• make (may be in base install)

and of course all the dependencies.

3. You will also need development packages for:

• mysql (Debian packet: libmysqlclient15-dev)
• zlib (Debian packet: zlib1g-dev)

4. This software should not be run as a privileged user (root). If you do not already have a non-root user to run the shard as, create one, or plan to use something like "nobody" or "mysql". The Alcugs files refer to "alcugs", and you can create such a user as follows:

Bourne Shell
adduser alcugs

After the packages and user are set up, no further use of root privileges is required. Log in as the user, or su to it:

Bourne Shell
su alcugs

Everything following now has to be done as low-privileged alcugs user, otherwise you will open serious security holes!

Now you can go on Building the Servers.