Weird behaviour of 5.7.22 Mac installer

[Glen McAllister]

Hi,

I’ve got a bash installer for MacOS which basically does a bit of pre- and post- install actions and runs the .pkg installer from the command line.

With this latest (5.7.22) version, I’ve found that the installer will give you a temporary root password, but it seems to not be used, in that:

1 - attempting to change the password with either the mysql client or mysqladmin fails using that temporary password

2 - after the installation (and the post-installation actions my script performs) I can log in with the previous root password.

After literally *hours* of trying to alter my script to cope with this 5.7.22 installation, I just ignored the temporary password and everything seems ok - I can log in with the existing root password and I’m using 5.7.22.

The only way I can make sense of this is that the installer is issuing a temporary password and not using it - to change the root user’s password anyway. This is not as silly as it sounds as with previous versions of the installer, a temporary password was not always issued and, because this was an incremental upgrade (from 5.7.21) I was not expecting it to be this time, either.

I was going to lodge a bug report for this version of the installer (Mac OS .dmg 10.13 5.7.22), but thought I would ask here if anyone had experienced anything similar?

Regards,

GAM (Glen A McAllister)