Comments on: How to get your MySQL Munin Graphs working

By: Gam’s Tweets » Comment installer et configurer Munin.

Gam’s Tweets » Comment installer et configurer Munin. — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:27:39 +0000

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By: Michael Brandonisio

Michael Brandonisio — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 21:13:35 +0000

Hi Raymond,

Thanks for catching that.

Mike

By: Raymond DeRoo

Raymond DeRoo — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 20:24:42 +0000

MIke–

No what you have won’t work.

… IDENTIFIED BY ‘clear-text-password’

… IDENTIFIED BY PASSWORD ‘already-encrypted-sting’

To specify the password as the hashed value as returned by the PASSWORD() function, include the PASSWORD keyword. See Section 12.5.1.3, “GRANT Syntax”. http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/create-user.html

By: Michael Brandonisio

Michael Brandonisio — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:35:38 +0000

Hi Raymond,

Thank you for the correction. Just so other reads can follow the part that starts with ‘IDENTIFIED’ is the password part. If you need a hashed password then use:

CREATE USER munin@localhost IDENTIFIED BY PASSWORD ‘munin’;

Mike

By: Raymond DeRoo

Raymond DeRoo — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 20:57:01 +0000

Although Bill’s method works, it’s not “The Right Way”. Instead one should use:

mysql> CREATE USER munin@localhost IDENTIFIED BY ‘munin’;

[raymond]

By: Matt B

Matt B — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:35:15 +0000

Thanks so much! Great info.

By: Michael Brandonisio

Michael Brandonisio — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 17:44:06 +0000

Hi Bill,

Your welcome and thank you for the input.

Mike

By: Bill McGonigle

Bill McGonigle — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 17:29:27 +0000

Thanks for the tips, Mike. Very handy.

For those following along at home, here’s how to do #1:

INSERT INTO user (Host, User, Password) VALUES(‘localhost’, ‘munin’, PASSWORD(‘munin’));
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;