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. Thanks Daniel for all the pull requests you've made. Unfortunately there are still some bugs. Now it ends with 'ERROR 1524 (HY000): Plugin 'unix_socket' is not loaded' I have built packages from the latest commit at my Debian packaging repo https://github.com/ottok/mariadb-10.0/commits/master (bac031c9796ebf08c651bc863bda97fcf2cce9c4) so that all of your pull requests regarding this are included. The dev repo addess is 'deb http://labs.seravo.fi/~otto/mariadb-repo/ mariadb-10.0-sid-amd64/' in case you forgot (see https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/MySQL/MariaDB) $ apt-get purge 'mysql-*' 'mariadb-*'; rm -rf /etc/mysql /var/lib/mysql; apt-get clean; apt-get update [..] $ apt-get install mariadb-server [..] Fetched 12.6 MB in 1min 34s (133 kB/s) Preconfiguring packages ... 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Setting up libmysqlclient18:amd64 (5.5.42-1) ... Setting up mariadb-client-core-10.0 (10.0.17-1~exp2) ... Setting up mariadb-client-10.0 (10.0.17-1~exp2) ... Setting up mariadb-server-core-10.0 (10.0.17-1~exp2) ... Setting up mariadb-server-10.0 (10.0.17-1~exp2) ... + . /usr/share/debconf/confmodule ++ '[' '!' '' ']' ++ PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 ++ export PERL_DL_NONLAZY ++ '[' '' ']' ++ exec /usr/share/debconf/frontend /var/lib/dpkg/info/mariadb-server-10.0.postinst configure '' + . /usr/share/debconf/confmodule ++ '[' '!' 1 ']' ++ '[' -z '' ']' ++ exec ++ '[' '' ']' ++ exec ++ DEBCONF_REDIR=1 ++ export DEBCONF_REDIR + '[' -n '' ']' + export PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin + PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin + ERR_LOGGER='logger -p daemon.err -t mysqld_safe -i' + set -o pipefail + MYSQL_BOOTSTRAP='/usr/sbin/mysqld --bootstrap --user=mysql --disable-log-bin --skip-grant-tables --default-storage-engine=myisam --plugin-load-add=auth_socket' + set +e + invoke stop + '[' -x /usr/sbin/invoke-rc.d ']' + invoke-rc.d mysql stop Stopping MariaDB database server: mysqld. + set -e + case "$1" in + mysql_statedir=/usr/share/mysql + mysql_datadir=/var/lib/mysql + mysql_logdir=/var/log/mysql + mysql_rundir=/var/run/mysqld + mysql_cfgdir=/etc/mysql + mysql_upgradedir=/var/lib/mysql-upgrade + '[' '!' -d /usr/share/mysql -a '!' -L /usr/share/mysql ']' + '[' '!' -d /var/lib/mysql -a '!' -L /var/lib/mysql ']' + '[' '!' -d /var/log/mysql -a '!' -L /var/log/mysql ']' + set +e + chown -R 0:0 /usr/share/mysql + chown -R mysql /var/lib/mysql + chown -R mysql:adm /var/log/mysql + chmod 2750 /var/log/mysql + set -e + db_set mariadb-server/postrm_remove_database false + _db_cmd 'SET mariadb-server/postrm_remove_database' false + _db_internal_IFS=' ' + IFS=' ' + printf '%s\n' 'SET mariadb-server/postrm_remove_database false' + IFS=' ' + IFS=' ' + read -r _db_internal_line + RET='10 mariadb-server/postrm_remove_database doesn'\''t exist' + case ${_db_internal_line%%[ ]*} in + return 10 + true + rm -f '/var/lib/mysql/debian-*.flag' + touch /var/lib/mysql/debian-10.0.flag + set +e + logger -p daemon.err -t mysqld_safe -i + bash /usr/bin/mysql_install_db --rpm --cross-bootstrap --user=mysql --disable-log-bin + set -e + dc=/etc/mysql/debian.cnf + '[' '!' -e /etc/mysql/debian.cnf -o 'grep -sq "^[^#]*user[^#=]*=[^#=]*debian-sys-maint" /etc/mysql/debian.cnf' ']' + '[' '!' -d /etc/mysql ']' + '[' -e /etc/mysql/debian.cnf ']' + oldconf= + umask 066 + cat /dev/null + umask 022 + echo '# Automatically generated for Debian scripts. DO NOT TOUCH!' + echo '[client]' + echo 'host = localhost' + echo 'user = root' + echo 'password = ' + echo 'socket = /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' + echo '[mysql_upgrade]' + echo 'host = localhost' + echo 'user = root' + echo 'password = ' + echo 'socket = /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' + echo 'basedir = /usr' + chown 0:0 /etc/mysql/debian.cnf + chmod 0600 /etc/mysql/debian.cnf ++ /bin/echo -e 'USE mysql;\n' 'SET sql_log_bin=0;\n' 'ALTER TABLE user CHANGE Password Password char(41) character set latin1 collate latin1_bin DEFAULT '\'''\'' NOT NULL;' + password_column_fix_query='USE mysql; SET sql_log_bin=0; ALTER TABLE user CHANGE Password Password char(41) character set latin1 collate latin1_bin DEFAULT '\'''\'' NOT NULL;' + echo 'USE mysql; SET sql_log_bin=0; ALTER TABLE user CHANGE Password Password char(41) character set latin1 collate latin1_bin DEFAULT '\'''\'' NOT NULL;' + logger -p daemon.err -t mysqld_safe -i + /usr/sbin/mysqld --bootstrap --user=mysql --disable-log-bin --skip-grant-tables --default-storage-engine=myisam --plugin-load-add=auth_socket ++ /bin/echo -e 'SET sql_mode='\'''\'', sql_log_bin=0;\n' 'DELETE FROM mysql.user WHERE user='\''debian-sys-maint'\'' AND host='\''localhost'\'';' + replace_query='SET sql_mode='\'''\'', sql_log_bin=0; DELETE FROM mysql.user WHERE user='\''debian-sys-maint'\'' AND host='\''localhost'\'';' ++ /bin/echo -e 'USE mysql;\n' 'SET sql_log_bin=0;\n' 'CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS plugin (name char(64) COLLATE utf8_bin NOT NULL DEFAULT '\'''\'', ' ' dl char(128) COLLATE utf8_bin NOT NULL DEFAULT '\'''\'', ' ' PRIMARY KEY (name)) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 COLLATE=utf8_bin COMMENT='\''MySQL plugins'\'';\n' 'INSTALL PLUGIN unix_socket SONAME '\''auth_socket'\'';\n' + install_plugins='USE mysql; SET sql_log_bin=0; CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS plugin (name char(64) COLLATE utf8_bin NOT NULL DEFAULT '\'''\'', dl char(128) COLLATE utf8_bin NOT NULL DEFAULT '\'''\'', PRIMARY KEY (name)) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 COLLATE=utf8_bin COMMENT='\''MySQL plugins'\''; INSTALL PLUGIN unix_socket SONAME '\''auth_socket'\'';' + set +e + echo 'USE mysql; SET sql_log_bin=0; CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS plugin (name char(64) COLLATE utf8_bin NOT NULL DEFAULT '\'''\'', dl char(128) COLLATE utf8_bin NOT NULL DEFAULT '\'''\'', PRIMARY KEY (name)) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 COLLATE=utf8_bin COMMENT='\''MySQL plugins'\''; INSTALL PLUGIN unix_socket SONAME '\''auth_socket'\'';' + logger -p daemon.err -t mysqld_safe -i + /usr/sbin/mysqld --bootstrap --user=mysql --disable-log-bin --skip-grant-tables --default-storage-engine=myisam --plugin-load-add=auth_socket + set -e + set_mysql_rootpw ++ mktemp + tfile=/tmp/tmp.RyQCYdtKwf + '[' '!' -f /tmp/tmp.RyQCYdtKwf ']' + cat + '[' '' = online ']' + /usr/sbin/mysqld --bootstrap --user=mysql --disable-log-bin --skip-grant-tables --default-storage-engine=myisam --plugin-load-add=auth_socket + retval=0 + rm -f /tmp/tmp.RyQCYdtKwf + return 0 + '[' -e ']' + rm -f + set +e + echo 'SET sql_mode='\'''\'', sql_log_bin=0; DELETE FROM mysql.user WHERE user='\''debian-sys-maint'\'' AND host='\''localhost'\'';' + logger -p daemon.err -t mysqld_safe -i + /usr/sbin/mysqld --bootstrap --user=mysql --disable-log-bin --skip-grant-tables --default-storage-engine=myisam --plugin-load-add=auth_socket + set -e + '[' configure = configure ']' + test_passwordless_root_login + mysql --no-defaults -u root -h localhost + '[' '' = yes ']' + db_stop + echo STOP + '[' -x /etc/init.d/mysql ']' + update-rc.d mysql defaults 19 21 + invoke-rc.d mysql start Starting MariaDB database server: mysqld. + exit 0 ERROR 1524 (HY000): Plugin 'unix_socket' is not loaded Setting up libdbd-mysql-perl (4.028-2+b1) ... Setting up mariadb-server (10.0.17-1~exp2) ... Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.19-13) ... $ mysql -u root ERROR 1524 (HY000): Plugin 'unix_socket' is not loaded /var/log/mysql/error.log is pasted at http://paste.debian.net/161259/ Please figure out what is still missing and open new pull requests to fix it :) The mariadb-10.0.17-exp1 at the moment in Debian experimental is broken due to inclusion of an early version of this change, so I hope we could get it completed soon so that I don't have to revert the whole passwordless root account feature (which has been requested by many). - Otto