WHM overwrites MariaDB root password if set manually?

tBartel03

• April 07, 2020 07:06

I recently reset my password for the root user of MariaDB. I later found my password not working and reset...and twice more. I had followed this tutorial and it was working fine. Is WHM resetting the password for some reason?

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  cPanelLauren

  • April 08, 2020 17:27

  You need to set passwords like this through the UI of cPanel for pretty much all of cPanel/WHM related services. WHM uses whatever is in /root/.my.cnf as the password and will attempt to use what's set there as it has no way to know that you've changed the password if done manually.

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  tBartel03

  • April 09, 2020 10:43

  That half answers the question. My real question is if WHM manually overwrites the file effectively "resetting" the password automatically.

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  cPanelLauren

  • April 09, 2020 16:44

  Which file? Like I said, it references /root/.my.cnf for the password. When you change through the UI it updates this file, when you change through the MySQL Commandline manually this is not updated.

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  tBartel03

  • April 12, 2020 10:57

  Which file? Like I said, it references /root/.my.cnf for the password. When you change through the UI it updates this file, when you change through the MySQL Commandline manually this is not updated.

  
  Again, that half answers my question. Something in WHM is - to my best guess, is overwriting the password so that only changing the password via WHM sticks. I am guessing this is some form of security mechanism?

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