MySQL Bugs: #74142: Support for Login Path in MySQL Connector Python

Bug #74142	Support for Login Path in MySQL Connector Python
Submitted:	29 Sep 2014 18:23	Modified:	16 Feb 2023 16:39
Reporter:	Kevin Heaps	Email Updates:
Status:	Closed	Impact on me:	None
Category:	Connector / Python	Severity:	S4 (Feature request)
Version:		OS:	Any
Assigned to:	Assigned Account	CPU Architecture:	Any
Tags:	Login Path

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Description:
Now that the connector supports config files, it would be great if it also supported the encrypted passwords in the files generated my mysql_config_editor.

How to repeat:
Specifying mysql.connector.connect(option_files="~/.mylogin.cnf") raises UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xf0 in position 30: invalid continuation byte

Posted by developer:
 
Thanks for the enhancement request.
But there are other ways far more secure way of storing application credentials and sensitive data, by using a dedicated secrets manager with keyring or going without passwords using options such as kerberos, x509, or fido.