How to install and secure egroupware - Directory UMM

7 Setup eGroupWare
7.1 Creating your database
� With the new version of eGroupWare, the setup scripts can automatically create the database for you. At
the moment this works only with MySQL databases and PostgreSQL databases! For MSSQL, you must create you
DB manually. If you want eGroupWare to create your DB automatically, proceed to point 7.3
MySQL
Create your database and a user which can connect to the DB.
Create the database:
[root@server html]# mysqladmin –u yourmysqladmin –p create database
Enter password:
Create the user and give him DB rights:
PostgreSQL
[root@server html]# mysql –u yourmysqladmin –p
Enter password:
mysql> grant all on egroupware.* to egroupwaredbuser@localhost
identified by “password”
Validate that a connection to your database is possible.
From your ROOT account change to the postgres account:
[root@server html]# su - postgres
Edit the file postgresql.conf:
-bash-2.05b$ cd data
-bash-2.05b$ vi postgresql.conf
Your file should look like the example here:
#Connection Parameter
tcpip_socket = true
#ssl = false
#max_connections = 32
port = 5432
Edit the file pg_hba.conf so that it looks like our example:
# TYPE DATABASE USER IP_ADDRESS MASK AUTH_TYPE AUTH_ARGUMENT
local egroupware trust
host egroupwaredbname all 127.0.0.1 255.255.255.255 md5
� The value User is available since PostgreSQL 7.3.X.
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