MariaDB already supports authenticating as OS users such as root, when use by UNIX domain sockets for communications: https://mariadb.com/kb/en/library/authentication-plugin-unix-socket/
> On Mar 25, 2019, at 6:07 PM, Felipe Gasper <fel...@felipegasper.com> wrote: > > Hello, > > I’ve submitted a proposal to the MySQL team to allow the system > administrator, when logging in via a local socket that indicates reliably > that the DB client is the superuser (e.g., SO_PEERCRED in Linux), to not need > a password. As implemented, my suggestion allows root to log in as any user. > > The rationale is that the system administrator can do anything on the > server (including manual edits to the DB files) anyway; thus, every user > already implicitly trusts that user with their data. > > This will simplify DB administration on several levels, but most > conspicuously because a lost DB admin password will no longer necessitate the > awkward one-time-init-file recovery method. > > Would MariaDB be interested in this proposal? > > -FG > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~maria-discuss > Post to : maria-discuss@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~maria-discuss > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
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