From 45949c76437355f0d9115ed8db5cf1f77dfd4abc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mark Theunissen Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 10:25:09 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] Add mysql user documentation --- library/mysql_user | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/library/mysql_user b/library/mysql_user index 4330c35338..86a7badbca 100644 --- a/library/mysql_user +++ b/library/mysql_user @@ -81,6 +81,12 @@ notes: passing credentials. If none are present, the module will attempt to read the credentials from C(~/.my.cnf), and finally fall back to using the MySQL default login of 'root' with no password. + - MySQL server installs with default login_user of 'root' and no password. To secure this user + as part of an idempotent playbook, you must create at least two tasks: the first must change the root user's password, + without providing any login_user/login_password details. The second must drop a ~/.my.cnf file containing + the new root credentials. Subsequent runs of the playbook will then succeed by reading the new credentials from + the file. + requirements: [ "ConfigParser", "MySQLdb" ] author: Mark Theunissen '''