[CentOS] mairadb doesn't prompt for user/pass

[Eero Volotinen]

2014-08-31 6:12 GMT+03:00 Tim Dunphy <bluethundr at gmail.com>:

> Hello,
>
>  I discovered today that CentOS 7 has replaced MySQL with MariaDB. Which is
> fine, it's seems really similar. And I was already aware that it was
> written by the original team that wrote mysql.
>
> It's cool that the mysql command still gets you in!
>
> This is the version I have:
>
> [root at web1:~] #mysql --version
> mysql  Ver 15.1 Distrib 5.5.37-MariaDB, for Linux (x86_64) using readline
> 5.1
>
> But for some reason all I have to do is type the word 'mysql' to get me
> into the database.
>
> That's ok for initial setup I guess. But once I was in a did away with all
> the accounts that either had blank set for the username, and updated all
> the accounts to use passwords.
>
> MariaDB [mysql]> select User,'@',Host,Password from user;
> +-------+---+-----------+-------------------------------------------+
>
> | User  | @ | Host      | Password                                  |
>
> +-------+---+-----------+-------------------------------------------+
>
> | root  | @ | localhost | *8328225AE4A663FAKEFAKEFAKEFAKEFAKE93D61 |
>
> | root  | @ | web1      | *8328225AE4A663FAKEFAKEFAKEFAKEFAKE93D61 |
>
> | root  | @ | 127.0.0.1 | *8328225AE4A663FAKEFAKEFAKEFAKEFAKE93D61 |
>
> | admin | @ | localhost | *8328225AE4A663FAKEFAKEFAKEFAKEFAKE93D61 |
>
> +-------+---+-----------+-------------------------------------------+
>
> 4 rows in set (0.00 sec)
>
> I also did a search from root to find any my.cnf files and didn't find any
> that has user accounts in them.
>
> Also I find that for the root accounts I can't seem to login even if I set
> the password in the database without encryption and copy/paste the password
> into the prompt.
>
> However the non-root account (admin) does let you in with the password.
>
> So I'm wondering how to secure mariadb so that it doesnt' let you in
> without typing in a username and password and also why it doesn't let you
> log in as 'root'? Is the root account disallowed from logging in by
> default?
>

you need to run
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/mysql-secure-installation.html
(mysql_secure_installation) command from commandline

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Eero