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From: Dieter Adriaenssens <dieter.adriaenssens@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Oct 8, 2016 at 11:35 PM
Subject: Fwd: Default unix socket authentication for root in MariaDB
To: Michal Čihař <michal@cihar.com>, Madhura Jayaratne <madhura.cj@gmail.com>


Hi,

I tried to send the mail below to the developer's mailinglist, but this didn't seem to work.

Kind regards,
Dieter

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From: Dieter Adriaenssens <dieter.adriaenssens@gmail.com>
Date: 2016-10-08 12:28 GMT+02:00
Subject: Default unix socket authentication for root in MariaDB
To: phpMyAdmin mailing list <phpmyadmin-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>


Hi devs,

At MariaDB developers meetup, there was a discussion about enabling unix socket authentiation [0] for the root user by default for new installs of MariaDB (this is currently already enabled in Debian testing and in Ubuntu)

Basically this means there is no password for the root user, which is possibly a problem using phpmyadmin out of the box on new installs with MariaDB.
It is of course possible to create another user with a password, even for root, using shell as root (or with sudo).

BTW : MariaDB will be default in Debian 9.0 (Stretch)



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Kind regards,

Dieter Adriaenssens



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Thanks and Regards,

Madhura Jayaratne