On 08/30/2014 10:12 PM, Tim Dunphy wrote: > 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? > > Thanks > Tim > my.cnf doesn't have the passwords. When you first set up mysql, you use the mysqladmin command to set the root password. MariaDB doesn't handle the initial set up any differently than MySQL. man mysqladmin C7 does do some stuff differently with the config as the "real" config files are in /etc/my.cnf.d /etc/my.cnf includes those files to build a config. -- -- Steve