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Re: Passwordless MariaDB root login with auth_socket in Debian continues..

 

I will check it today and add more info.
Thanks


On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 2:12 PM, John Leach <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Sat, 2015-03-14 at 20:48 +0200, Otto Kekäläinen wrote:
> > Hello Daniel B. and others,
> >
> > I decided to write to you via the mailing list so that we are
> > inclusive if somebody wants to join our effort to create a solid
> > passwordless (Debian/Ubuntu) packaging.
> >
>
> it might be worth you noting the issue I found last month - mariadb and
> perconadb (and maybe mysql upstream, I'm unsure) use different names for
> the unix socket plugin, so switching between servers with the same data
> directory using this plugin does not work:
>
> https://lists.launchpad.net/maria-developers/msg08177.html
>
> I'm unsure if Debian uses different data directories for mariadb
> than /var/lib/mysql. The percona packages don't, and mariadb's own
> packages do not.
>
> There are plenty of other things that make switching mysql versions
> difficult, but the default authentication stopping working seems like
> it's going to affect a lot of people!
>
> John.
>
>
>


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