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[Jean Weisbuch <jean@xxxxxxxxxx>]

This kind of specific configuration should be put on the "conf.d/" 
directory and under a "[mariadb]" tag as its specific to it.
As it should be possible for the install not to fail if the passwordless 
configuration failed (or ideally if there was a choice and the user 
chose not to use it).
Adding this directly on the "my.cnf" will be a real mess for users who 
just re-use generic "my.cnf" from other installs (or from a template) 
that could be cross-compatible between distros and with older versions 
of MariaDB or even with MySQL.
And that way it will be easier to maintain changes to my.cnf and to this 
authentication config file when doing packages upgrade.

Another possibility is to reuse the "debian-start" and "debian.cnf" 
mechanism which was adding "--defaults-file=/etc/mysql/debian.cnf" to 
mysql* commands but it doesnt sounds as clean and portable as to use 
conf.d in case the datadir and /etc/mysql would be ported to a different 
distro (or to a generic "tar" version of MariaDB) without keeping the 
debian init script (its a bit far fetched, i know but i saw that in the 
past).

Le 06/04/2015 12:32, Otto Kekäläinen a écrit :
> Hello!
>
> 2015-04-06 13:12 GMT+03:00 Daniel Cialdella Converti <dcialdella@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > root@d7:/etc/mysql# ll -lailR
> > .:
> > total 48
> > 1055141 drwxr-xr-x   4 root root  4096 Apr  6 12:10 .
> > 1044481 drwxr-xr-x 141 root root 12288 Apr  6 11:04 ..
> > 1055175 drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 Apr  6 11:03 conf.d
> > 1044616 -rw-------   1 root root   277 Mar 26 11:57 debian.cnf
> > 1045134 -rw-------   1 root root   333 Feb 23 09:07 debian_old_config.fsDTDb
> > 1055184 -rwxr-xr-x   1 root root  1312 Feb  3 04:34 debian-start
> > 1055178 -rw-r--r--   1 root root   744 Feb  9 20:21 mariadb.cnf
> > 1055147 drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 Mar 24 10:03 mariadb.conf.d
> > 1055143 -rw-r--r--   1 root root  3540 Apr  6 11:09 my.cnf
> > 1055174 -rw-r--r--   1 root root  3506 Feb 16 11:49 my.cnf.dpkg-old
>
> The mariadb-common postinstall script was supposed to run:
>
> mv -f /etc/mysql/my.cnf /etc/mysql/my.cnf.old
> ln -sf mariadb.cnf /etc/mysql/my.cnf
>
> It does not seem to have happened for some reason..
>
> What if you Daniel C run those two lines manually (as root)?