Hi ya, I am currently trying to package RefDB, a bibliography database manager. RefDB uses MySQL, so one thing that the package has to do is to create/delete MySQL databases and users. For that, the scripts need the admin password for the MySQL database server. What is the best way to handle this potential security problem? I do not find it suitable to store the password in the debconf database, but the only way I see out of it is to ask for the password in the postrm script.
Any ideas? Cheers, Marco
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