Hello all,
This is nothing directly related to Webmin/Virtualmin.
Recently, I had a problem with MariaDB. To resolve the issue I used MobaXterm to login to server using SSH. To my surprise, the root user was logged in even without asking a password.
Then I tried Putty to login and it asked me for the password.
Whenever I try to login using MobaXterm, it is not asking for any password.
Does anyone have an advice?
-Josin
Do you have ssh keys set up?
Most probably you stored the password in the app.
It actually says it in there docs on that page
This question is better asked of the MobaXterm folks. We don’t maintain it, nor do I use it.
But, I can assure you ssh is not letting anyone log in without a password or a key or some other supported form of authentication.
By default, MariaDB enables Unix socket authentication. This means if your system username matches a MariaDB user, you can log in without a password. Keep in mind that users authenticated this way cannot be used directly by web apps like phpMyAdmin, because it expects a username/password handshake.
You can check which authentication plugin is used by running the following command while logged into your database:
SELECT user, host, plugin FROM mysql.user;
The question was not about logging into Mariadb. It was about ssh.
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