[phpMyAdmin Developers] Fwd: Default unix socket authentication for root in MariaDB

[Madhura Jayaratne]

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From: Dieter Adriaenssens <dieter.adriaenssens at 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 at cihar.com>, Madhura Jayaratne <madhura.cj at gmail.com
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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 at 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 at 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/

-- 
Kind regards,

Dieter Adriaenssens



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Kind regards,

Dieter Adriaenssens



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Thanks and Regards,

Madhura Jayaratne
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