Re: Ubuntu MySQL install with Virtualmin - password problems with 16.04.4 server

From: Abandoned Trolley <russell_at_fredswedlock.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2018 15:54:35 +0100
Message-ID: <pavp3e$7s4$1_at_dont-email.me>


On 15/04/2018 15:51, Jerry Stuckle wrote:

> On 4/15/2018 5:39 AM, Abandoned Trolley wrote:
>> On 14/04/2018 15:09, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
>>> On 4/14/2018 5:16 AM, Abandoned Trolley wrote:
>>>> On 13/04/2018 22:28, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
>>>>> On 4/13/2018 4:30 AM, Abandoned Trolley wrote:

>>>>>> On 29/03/2018 10:38, Abandoned Trolley wrote:
>>>>>>> hi there,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Is there anybody out there having problems with the MySQL root
>>>>>>> password
>>>>>>> when MySQL installion is carried out by Virtualmin.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I am using the latest Virtualmin install script, and a fresh clean
>>>>>>> install of the latest 16.04.4 server distro but I still keep getting
>>>>>>> locked out.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Any suggestions ?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> AT
>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>

>>>>>> This trail seems to have gone a bit cold.
>>>>>>

>>>>>> I don't suppose anybody has managed to replicate this condition on a
>>>>>> test machine somewhere ?
>>>>>>

>>>>>> The install script is:
>>>>>>

>>>>>> # License and version
>>>>>> SERIAL=GPL
>>>>>> KEY=GPL
>>>>>> VER=6.0.8
>>>>>> vm_version=6
>>>>>>

>>>>>> If anybody is interested.
>>>>>>

>>>>>> AT
>>>>>
>>>>> No, I install MySQL from the distro's repository.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks, but I believe you may have mentioned that before - in this
>>>> thread.
>>>>
>>>> AT
>>>
>>> Why are you so against using the standard (and supported) method for
>>> installing MySQL?
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I have no objection to using the "standard and supported" method of
>> installing mysql - in fact I frequently do so when installing on
>> containers.
>>
>> Maybe you should have a think about what else Virtualmin does.
>>
>> Now heres a question for you - why do you keep on posting on this
>> thread when you have made no attempt to answer the original question ?
>>
>> Apart from telling us how you install MySQL you have contributed nothing.
>>
>> AT
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
> Why do you continue to post in this thread when it is obvious everyone
> here uses the standard and supported method of installing MySQL and no
> one uses VirtualMin?
>
> Other than continuing to ask the same question and being too stubborn to
> admit you've screwed up, you have done nothing but complain.
>
> There are very good reasons no one here uses VirtualMin to install
> MySQL.  VirtualMin doesn't do anything you can't do with standard and
> supported tools.  And the latter almost always do it better.
>

Thanks for your input

AT Received on Sun Apr 15 2018 - 16:54:35 CEST

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