Re: User with erroneous password

On 16/01/2022 23.35, John Levine wrote:
> It appears that pinnerite  <[email protected]> said:
>> This is for a MythTV database.
>>
>> $ sudo mysql --defaults-file=/etc/mysql/debian.cnf mysql
>>
>> mysql> SELECT User,authentication_string,Host from user;
>> +------------------+------------------------------------------------------------------------+-----------+
>> | User             | authentication_string                                                  | Host      |
>> +------------------+------------------------------------------------------------------------+-----------+
>> | mythtv           | *B5BCD029F2268798922CDC55B5253D354B2C0246                              | %         |
>> | debian-sys-maint | $A$005$F5	%d'zoHMtJEX88t/x1bvIEMnwtseub5Tc7Z02gRpckab8.tZPnvPL5 | localhost |
>> | mysql.infoschema | $A$005$THISISACOMBINATIONOFINVALIDSALTANDPASSWORDTHATMUSTNEVERBRBEUSED | localhost |
>> | mysql.session    | $A$005$THISISACOMBINATIONOFINVALIDSALTANDPASSWORDTHATMUSTNEVERBRBEUSED | localhost |
>> | mysql.sys        | $A$005$THISISACOMBINATIONOFINVALIDSALTANDPASSWORDTHATMUSTNEVERBRBEUSED | localhost |
>> !ug2Ym[S%/K+ca2n7M06VWGOgOzJFxxKkrg/c7pjNT6Dm3n3FzLXm56 | localhost |
>> | root             | *2B2E29BFA4C432ED2C7C49E07B175220796B98EE                              | localhost |
>> +------------------+------------------------------------------------------------------------+-----------+
>>
>> I want to change the authentication string in the first line with 'mythtv'.
> 
> UPDATE user set authentication_string="swordfish" where user="mythtv";

Not sure that would work well, as far as I'm aware it would lead to that 
swordfish would be there as plain text and not as a hash. You would need 
to use PASSWORD('swordfish').

I think the following is more what you "should" do:

SET PASSWORD FOR 'mythtv'@'%' = bigshark;

sure you can also use later user in the same way too.

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  //Aho