hey christian,
On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 01:13 +0200, Christian Hammers wrote: > > http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=27783 > > > > ...in which it's stated that mysql_install_db *should* be idempotent, at > > least wrt the mysql.user tables. btw this was reported yesterday and > > fixed today. > > That one's great. I've used it and upload a fix to unstable soon. > > Any suggestions what we do about existing installations? Print a warning > in debian-start when there are root accounts with and ones without a > password? This would go to syslog on every server start and well cannot hurt > anyway, or? i think that's probably the best approach, yeah. because it's also possible that someone has set things up so that root needs a password remotely but not locally. unless there's a good way to tell the difference between these two situations i don't know that we should do anything more than log a warning. sean
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