[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: mysql and root password

[Bryan McLellan < >]

On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 10:36 AM, S Ahmed 
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 wrote:
> I just tested it and it worked for me fine (setting the root password).
> I'm on ubuntu 10.10, running chef 10.8 on a fresh server with the mysql
> cookbook from opscode.

Thanks. I suspect one common issue might be that if the mysql-server
package is already installed, it won't set a password because on
Debian/Ubuntu it does so via pre-seeding the package before the
package is installed. CHEF-2570 [1] added a 'reconfig' action to the
package provider, it would be good if someone could add support to the
mysql cookbook for this and test it. I've created COOK-1198 [2] to
track that work.

Bryan

[1] http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/CHEF-2570
[2] http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/COOK-1198