Monterey 12.6: cannot chown to _mysql for mysql datadir

[Murray Eisenberg]

Sorry for typo: what I tried was;

	chown -R _mysql:_mysql /Users/me/Databases/mysql/data


> On 13 Sep2022, at 3:15 PM, Murray Eisenberg <murrayeisenberg at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Whenever macOS updates to a new version, it destroys the custom settings for my user directory and subdirectories that are required for mysql to access its datadir, which is in a custom location.
> 
> In the past, I’ve used the command
> 
> 	chown +R _mysql:_mysql /Users/me/Databases/mysql/data
> 
> as part of the steps to make a custom mysql datadir accessible to mysql.
> 
> But since I just upgraded to Monterey 12.6, I’m getting the error message:
> 
> 	chown: +R: illegal user name
> 
> What to do now?
> 
> Note that permission changes such as
> 
> 	chmod +a "_mysql allow search" /Users/me/Databases
> 
> (and ditto for /Users/me and /Users/me/Databases/mysql) are OK.
> 
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> Murray Eisenberg		murrayeisenberg at gmail.com
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