On Sat, 2015-03-14 at 20:48 +0200, Otto Kekäläinen wrote:
Hello Daniel B. and others,
I decided to write to you via the mailing list so that we are inclusive if somebody wants to join our effort to create a solid passwordless (Debian/Ubuntu) packaging.
it might be worth you noting the issue I found last month - mariadb and perconadb (and maybe mysql upstream, I'm unsure) use different names for the unix socket plugin, so switching between servers with the same data directory using this plugin does not work: https://lists.launchpad.net/maria-developers/msg08177.html I'm unsure if Debian uses different data directories for mariadb than /var/lib/mysql. The percona packages don't, and mariadb's own packages do not. There are plenty of other things that make switching mysql versions difficult, but the default authentication stopping working seems like it's going to affect a lot of people! John.