> "random-password" makes too much trouble for the reasons Olaf and you already
pointed out (mail is insecure, displayed passwords will be overlooked..)
I think writing the password to /etc/mysql/root_password (600) and
emailing and/or showing a (debconf) notice saying the password is
stored there
sean finney wrote:
tags 316127 patch
thanks
hey christian, olaf,
attached is a diff against the sid-5.0 trunk that i think should do
what i discussed. unfortunately i don't have the time to verify
it (i don't have a copy of the latest dfsg tarball), but it's a fairly
small patch and the code i
tags 316127 patch
thanks
hey christian, olaf,
attached is a diff against the sid-5.0 trunk that i think should do
what i discussed. unfortunately i don't have the time to verify
it (i don't have a copy of the latest dfsg tarball), but it's a fairly
small patch and the code is not that complicate
Christian Hammers wrote:
"random-password" makes too much trouble for the reasons Olaf and you already
pointed out (mail is insecure, displayed passwords will be overlooked..)
I asked at debian-devel and:
Chrony puts it in a file in /etc/chrony.
And protects it from being read by unauthorized p
Hello
On 2005-06-28 Olaf van der Spek wrote:
> sean finney wrote:
> > also, now that i think about it, we could put something in the postinst
> > that checks if it could connect to the mysql server w/o a password after
> > starting the server, and if so prompts the admin whether with an
> > ignore
On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 12:24:18AM +0200, Christian Hammers wrote:
> > Is that a good reason to run without root pass?
>
> It's good enough not to change the password without asking the admin and
> not displaying it on every upgrade if the admin likes to stay with his
> decision.
so this is what
Christian Hammers wrote:
This warning should probably also only displayed once (as it's Debconf
default) to not annoy the admins that do not want a password on their
database (my desktop has mysql installed to quickly try out things
when I'm doing work on another machine e.g.)
Is that a good r
Hello
On 2005-06-28 Olaf van der Spek wrote:
> Christian Hammers wrote:
> > Maybe just a warning note? Actually setting the password should be nothing
> > we should clutter up our scripts with (they are grown too big anyway IMHO)
> > as that's really something the local admin is in charge of.
>
>
Hello
On 2005-06-28 sean finney wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 10:07:05PM +0200, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
> > >or better, what if we prompt for the root password via debconf, and then
> > >if the answer is non-blank, set the password? this wouldn't be very
> > >hard to do.
> >
> > The disadvan
Christian Hammers wrote:
Maybe just a warning note? Actually setting the password should be nothing we
should clutter up our scripts with (they are grown too big anyway IMHO)
as that's really something the local admin is in charge of.
Isn't the local admin in charge of everything?
This warning
sean finney wrote:
hey,
On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 10:07:05PM +0200, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
or better, what if we prompt for the root password via debconf, and then
if the answer is non-blank, set the password? this wouldn't be very
hard to do.
The disadvantage would be another question.
As
hey,
On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 10:07:05PM +0200, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
> >or better, what if we prompt for the root password via debconf, and then
> >if the answer is non-blank, set the password? this wouldn't be very
> >hard to do.
>
> The disadvantage would be another question.
> As I prefer
sean finney wrote:
hey olaf,
On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 07:34:35PM +0200, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
Would it be possible to generate a random default password for the MySQL root
user instead of the blank password?
The password could be stored in a file in /root for example.
or better, what if
hey olaf,
On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 07:34:35PM +0200, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
> Would it be possible to generate a random default password for the MySQL root
> user instead of the blank password?
> The password could be stored in a file in /root for example.
or better, what if we prompt for the r
Package: mysql-server-4.1
Version: 4.1.12-1
Severity: wishlist
Hi,
Would it be possible to generate a random default password for the MySQL root
user instead of the blank password?
The password could be stored in a file in /root for example.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstab
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