Ah, OK, thanks. It has been a long time since I first installed MySQL for CloudStack development and I don't recall exactly how I set it up back then, but it must have been without a password.
On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 12:01 PM, Vijayendra Bhamidipati < vijayendra.bhamidip...@citrix.com> wrote: > Hi Mike, > > If when installing your mysql server, you set a password for the mysql > root user, you will need to specify that here. If you haven't encountered > errors in your deploydb, you probably haven't set the mysql root user > password and so you don't have to change the db.properties file. Typically, > if we set this password, we copy over the db.properties file to > db.properties.override and fill in this field in that file and it will get > picked up by the db schema creation scripts. > > Regards, > Vijay > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mike Tutkowski [mailto:mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com] > Sent: Monday, August 05, 2013 10:49 AM > To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org > Subject: db.properties > > Hi, > > I was looking at my db.properties file and noticed I didn't fill in a > value for the db.root.password key. > > Can someone tell me what filling in this value will change behavior wise > in CloudStack? > > Thanks! > > Mike > > # CloudStack database settings > > db.cloud.username=cloud > > db.cloud.password=cloud > > db.root.password= > > db.cloud.host=localhost > > db.cloud.port=3306 > > db.cloud.name=cloud > > -- > *Mike Tutkowski* > *Senior CloudStack Developer, SolidFire Inc.* > e: mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com > o: 303.746.7302 > Advancing the way the world uses the > cloud<http://solidfire.com/solution/overview/?video=play> > *(tm)* > -- *Mike Tutkowski* *Senior CloudStack Developer, SolidFire Inc.* e: mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com o: 303.746.7302 Advancing the way the world uses the cloud<http://solidfire.com/solution/overview/?video=play> *™*