Mariadb Installed Without Password Prompts For Root On Ubuntu Linux
Is this new? It’s always been the case where MySQL and MariaDB, a fork of MySQL prompt passwords every time before access is granted to the server. Apparently, not anymore for MariaDB. Now simply installing the database gives the root access without a password. Even after running the command sudo mysql_secure_installation. the root account password is never required. However, other applications and services that depend on MariaDB will fail if the root password is needed for authentication....