On Jan 20, 2012, at 7:48 AM, Derek Higgins <derekh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Russell, > While writing automation scripts for installing nova, I am running > > $ openstack-nova-db-setup --novapw nova --rootpw "" --yes > > my problem is this script prompts for a password if the mysql root > password is a zero length string. This patch allows the root password to > be a zero length string. > > Any thought? should this change go into the openstack-nova package or is > it a bad idea to allow blank passwords? > > in my case mysql had already been installed with a blank root password > before running this script so I had to pass in the blank password. > This change looks good to me. This just wasn't a case I thought about. I can merge the patch next week if someone else doesn't beat me to it. Thanks! -- Russell Bryant _______________________________________________ cloud mailing list cloud@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud