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Asked: 2016-06-30 21:30:22 +0800 CST

Can't figure out how to automatically set MariaDB root password without user intervention

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I'm making a script that installs MariaDB, and I'd like to set a root password. I've got the following in said script:

DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive

echo mariadb-server-10.0 mariadb-server-10.0/root_password password tmpsetup | debconf-set-selections
echo mariadb-server-10.0 mariadb-server-10.0/root_password_again password tmpsetup | debconf-set-selections
apt-get install -y mariadb-server

This doesn't seem to work, as I can't log into the root account with the "tmpsetup" password. What am I doing wrong?

ubuntu bourne-shell mariadb

1 Answers

  1. Please try instead with

    DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive

echo mariadb-server-10.0 mariadb-server/root_password password tmpsetup | debconf-set-selections
echo mariadb-server-10.0 mariadb-server/root_password_again password tmpsetup | debconf-set-selections
apt-get install -y mariadb-server

    That way the changes will be applied also to mariadb-server meta-package, and not only for the specific version.

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