I’ll be using MySQL to store user information for the small business server. This could be done with an LDAP server and many people will tell you that it should be. I chose MySQL over LDAP because it’s easier to understand, easier to use and you’ll probably require it anyway.

Installing MySQL

Once more apt-get makes installing services trivial

sudo apt-get install mysql-client-5.0 mysql-server-5.0 mysql-common

That’s it!! You don’t need to do anything else in this post. I’ll cover creating a schema for users and adding a few in my next post.