---------- Forwarded message ---------- 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

---------- Forwarded message ---------- 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)

[0] https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/unix_socket-authentication-plugin/