On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 05:23:34PM +0100, Nico Golde wrote: > * Ansgar Burchardt <ans...@2008.43-1.org> [2009-01-05 16:42]: > > The question asking for the administrative password has a priority of > > `medium'. Debconf's default is to ask only questions of at least > > priority `high' since 1.4.61 (and d-i apparently sets this value by > > default even longer). > > > > This results in an empty root password by default. Every user which > > can connect from `localhost' has then full administrative privileges. > > The only thing he has to do is run `mysql -u root'.
FYI the MySQL package in Ubuntu changes the debconf priority to high. -- Mathias Gug Ubuntu Developer http://www.ubuntu.com
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