MariaDB Server 10.4 came with a whole lot of Security related changes. Some of them are merely optimizations (like MDEV-15649), some improve existing features to be more robust (MDEV-15473, MDEV-7598) or convenient (MDEV-12835, MDEV-16266). Some are MySQL compatibility features, requested by our users (MDEV-7597, MDEV-13095). But the first thing any MariaDB Server user, whether an […]

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What is the solution if I don’t want to give password in command line (i.e mysql -uroot -p ) OR don’t want to store password in files(in .my.cnf) and still can login into MySQL/MariaDB without password ? I was also bit curious to know but finally I found very easy solution called “unix_socket plugin” provided by MariaDB.

This plugin allows to use operating system user credentials while connecting to MariaDB via Unix socket. When we try to connect with OS user, it will retrieve uid of the process which has connected to the socket and allow it to connect to MariaDB with the same user.

You can simply install that plugin with command,

MariaDB [(none)]> INSTALL PLUGIN unix_socket SONAME 'auth_socket';
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.02 sec)

After, then you need to identify the user which you want to use to login into MariaDB. Like for me,