Bug #42748 Cannot enter empty password for database user when installing agent
Submitted: 11 Feb 2009 6:42 Modified: 18 Feb 2009 20:35
Reporter: Oli Sennhauser Email Updates:
Status: Won't fix Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Enterprise Monitor: Installing Severity:S3 (Non-critical)
Version:2.0.4.7141 OS:Linux
Assigned to: CPU Architecture:Any

[11 Feb 2009 6:42] Oli Sennhauser 
Description:
When I install the agent I cannot enter an empty password for the user accessing the database.

How to repeat:
just try it out

Suggested fix:
Workaround: Enter dummy password and fix later manually.

I know that this is not too good in any circumstances. I know that some companies have the concept, that the server is secure per se and thus you do not need a password for the local root.

So please let me choose myself.
[11 Feb 2009 8:20] Sveta Smirnova 
Thank you for the report.

Verified as described.
[18 Feb 2009 20:35] Mark Matthews 
This is as-designed. The agent requires SUPER privileges, so we're not going to let people use an account with no password. 

We realize that someone might have this policy of the machine hosting mysqld being secure, but we're not going to rely on that in our product, it opens too many holes for customers to shoot themselves in the foot security-wise, and then blame us.