Hello

On 2006-07-21 dean gaudet wrote:
> Package: mysql-server-5.0
> Version: 5.0.22-3
> 
> every time i do "/etc/init.d/mysql start" or restart it runs the 
> mysql_upgrade script... and even if the database has already been upgraded 
> it always runs this:
> 
> mysql_fix_privilege_tables --silent --user=$user --password=$password
> 
> which of course exposes the password of the debian-sys-maint user for 
> anyone to sniff out of /proc.

ACK, mysql_upgrade is horrible :) But since 5.0.23 it's a C program now which
calls 
 "mysql --defaults-extra-file=... < /usr/share/mysql/fix_privilege_tables.sql"
so that bug will be fixed with the next upload.

bye,

-christian-


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