<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Dieter Adriaenssens</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dieter.adriaenssens@gmail.com">dieter.adriaenssens@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Sat, Oct 8, 2016 at 11:35 PM<br>Subject: Fwd: Default unix socket authentication for root in MariaDB<br>To: Michal Čihař <<a href="mailto:michal@cihar.com">michal@cihar.com</a>>, Madhura Jayaratne <<a href="mailto:madhura.cj@gmail.com">madhura.cj@gmail.com</a>><br><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Hi,<br><br></div>I tried to send the mail below to the developer's mailinglist, but this didn't seem to work.<br><br></div>Kind regards,<br></div>Dieter<br><br><div><div><div><div><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Dieter Adriaenssens</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dieter.adriaenssens@gmail.com" target="_blank">dieter.adriaenssens@gmail.com</a><wbr>></span><br>Date: 2016-10-08 12:28 GMT+02:00<br>Subject: Default unix socket authentication for root in MariaDB<br>To: phpMyAdmin mailing list <<a href="mailto:phpmyadmin-devel@lists.sourceforge.net" target="_blank">phpmyadmin-devel@lists.<wbr>sourceforge.net</a>><br><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Hi devs,<br><br></div>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)<br><br></div>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.<br></div>It is of course possible to create another user with a password, even for root, using shell as root (or with sudo).<br clear="all"><div><div><div><div><div><br></div><div>BTW : MariaDB will be default in Debian 9.0 (Stretch)<br></div><div><br>[0] <a href="https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/unix_socket-authentication-plugin/" target="_blank">https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mari<wbr>adb/unix_socket-authentication<wbr>-plugin/</a><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><span class="m_3619058033712131593HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br><br>-- <br><div class="m_3619058033712131593m_-3363397234615702858gmail_signature">Kind regards,<br><br>Dieter Adriaenssens</div>
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</div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Thanks and Regards,<div><br></div><div>Madhura Jayaratne<br><div><br></div></div></div>
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