Re: Deleting a MySQL database in postrm

The standard way of storing the root password for MySQL is in 
~root/.my.cnf.. It should look something like this:

[mysqladmin]
user            = username
password        = password

In any case, I don't think it wise to add/remove databases on 
installation/removal, that should probably be left up to the user to do 
- I don't think any package, including TWIG, which needs MySQL to run, 
installs a database automatically.

Marco Kuhlmann wrote:
>     Hi ya,
>
> I am currently trying to package RefDB, a bibliography database
> manager. RefDB uses MySQL, so one thing that the package has to
> do is to create/delete MySQL databases and users. For that, the
> scripts need the admin password for the MySQL database server.
> What is the best way to handle this potential security problem?
> I do not find it suitable to store the password in the debconf
> database, but the only way I see out of it is to ask for the
> password in the postrm script.
>
> Any ideas?
>
>     Cheers,
>     Marco    


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