From:
Sergei Golubchik <serg@mariadb.org>
Date: Tuesday, July 30, 2024 at 12:27
To: Chris Ross (cross2) <cross2@cisco.com>
Cc: discuss@lists.mariadb.org <discuss@lists.mariadb.org>
Subject: Re: [MariaDB discuss] mariadb connector/c client not using SSL
Hi, Chris,
On Jul 25, Chris Ross (cross2) wrote:
> Good. Okay, thank you. So I was of course following the
> documentation. I hope you can figure out how to fix that, I presume
> this is just a bug that the code is wrong, and the implementation
> should match the doc?
I didn't know when I was replying, that's why I only said that "we'll
fix the discrepancy".
It seems that the documentation was incorrect. I've fixed it to describe
the intended behavior.
> As you suggested, specifying a group causes it to work. That way I
> won’t have to hard-code a config file path, but I also would rather
> not have to hard-code a group. “client” is safe for me now I think,
> but since the documentation suggests multiple groups that are
> relevant, it’s a small risk to code one that could later change.
You don't need to hard-code a group, you can use an empty string for the
file name to have the desired behavior of "all default groups in all
default files".
Regards,
Sergei
Chief Architect, MariaDB Server
and security@mariadb.org