At 05:42 PM 05-02-01, Charlie Brady wrote:
>On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Noah Berlove wrote:
>
> > I am very happy to see that MySQL is now part of the e-smith installation
> > (I just installed 4.1 rc3). However, the installation does not set the
> > MySQL root password.
>
>Not true, actually. The MySQL root password is set, although you can be
>forgiven for thinking that it isn't, as root is able to run mysql from the
>command line without password. This is because the password is contained
>in the file /root/.my.cnf with permissions 0600, and the mysql command is
>able to read that at startup. Non-root users are not able to access mysql
>as root, as you can verify by creating a user, changing that user's shell
>to bash using "chsh -s /bin/bash foo", then logging in as that user, then
>typing:
My mistake -- MySQL works as you describe. Thanks for the correction.
Noah
