Hi, Alexey! On Jan 16, Alexey Botchkov wrote:

revision-id: de9ef1390655abfb2b46a158148a9e27410298a2 (mariadb-10.1.20-44-gde9ef13) parent(s): ab1e6fefd869242d962cb91a006f37bb9ad534a7 committer: Alexey Botchkov timestamp: 2017-01-16 02:20:15 +0400 message:

MDEV-10956 Strict Password Validation Breaks Replication.

Password validation switched off completely for slave threads.

I'd rather disable only strict_password_validation check in replication threads. Because it, indeed, makes no sense there. Regards, Sergei Chief Architect MariaDB and security@mariadb.org