That’s different, I think. That’s for a mapping between system users and dB users.

What I’m proposing is specifically for root, to be able to log in as any DB user.

-FG

On Mar 25, 2019, at 6:21 PM, Justin Swanhart <greenlion@gmail.com> wrote:

MariaDB already supports authenticating as OS users such as root, when use by UNIX domain sockets for communications:

https://mariadb.com/kb/en/library/authentication-plugin-unix-socket/

On Mar 25, 2019, at 6:07 PM, Felipe Gasper <felipe@felipegasper.com> wrote:

Hello,

   I’ve submitted a proposal to the MySQL team to allow the system administrator, when logging in via a local socket that indicates reliably that the DB client is the superuser (e.g., SO_PEERCRED in Linux), to not need a password. As implemented, my suggestion allows root to log in as any user.

   The rationale is that the system administrator can do anything on the server (including manual edits to the DB files) anyway; thus, every user already implicitly trusts that user with their data.

   This will simplify DB administration on several levels, but most conspicuously because a lost DB admin password will no longer necessitate the awkward one-time-init-file recovery method.

   Would MariaDB be interested in this proposal?

-FG
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