Package: mariadb-server Version: 10.1.21-5 Severity: important Newly installed mariadb-server. How the hell is this passwordless root thing supposed to work?
user@myhost-->sudo mysql -u root ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO) root@myhost# mysql -u root ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO) I was surprised when the installer didn't prompt me to create a root password. Grepping through the /usr/share/doc/mariadb* files led to me to mariadb-server-10.1/README.Debian.gz, which indicates that I should be able to use sudo to get root access. This behavior change is substantial enough that you may want to consider actively notifying the user during installation. Even a "Please read the README file at bla-bla-bla" would be fine since I don't really want to have to guess which of the SEVEN /usr/share/doc/mariadb* directories has the README file I want (BONUS FUN: THREE different mariadb-server* directories). -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages mariadb-server depends on: ii mariadb-server-10.1 10.1.21-5 mariadb-server recommends no packages. mariadb-server suggests no packages. -- debconf-show failed
