Bug #78830 allow slave to read .mylogin.cnf for master user credentials

• Submitted: 14 Oct 2015 9:45
• Modified: 14 Oct 2015 11:42
• Reporter: Shane Bester (Platinum Quality Contributor)
• Status: Verified
• Category: MySQL Server: Replication
• Severity: S4 (Feature request)
• Version: 5.7.10
• OS: Any
• CPU Architecture: Any

[14 Oct 2015 9:45] Shane Bester

Description:
I'd like to store a user/password in .mylogin.cnf so that one does not have to be provided to START SLAVE command.  

This is a request that the replication thread reads the .mylogin.cnf to find user/password for the master.

How to repeat:
feature request. try start slave without typing password and without storing it in cleartext.

Suggested fix:
I suppose mysqlrpladmin can read the .mylogin.cnf file, so this is a partial workaround, but it still requires a manual invocation of the utility.

[14 Oct 2015 11:42] MySQL Verification Team

Hello Shane,

Thank you for the reasonable feature request!

Thanks,
Umesh