Nova install and blank mysql root passwords

[Russell Bryant]

On Jan 20, 2012, at 7:48 AM, Derek Higgins <derekh at redhat.com> 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!

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Russell Bryant