Re: Passwordless root access
Posted by:
Rick James
Date: February 09, 2013 05:35PM
> Presumably this isn't implemented because MySQL should be system agnostic.
True. However 5.5 has a way to add a "plugin" for authentication.
> Given that practically every LAMP application already stores passwords on the filesystem in cleartext
Eh? I thought /etc/passwd and/or /etc/shadow have 1-way encrypted passwords.
MySQL's passwords are 1-way encrypted in mysql.user.password.
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