February 2018
Intermediate to advanced
510 pages
16h 10m
English
MySQL 8 allows you to write passwords as plain text in SQL statements, such as CREATE USER, SET PASSWORD, and GRANT. If we execute these statements, MySQL 8 will write passwords as text in log files, and they are visible to all the users that have access to the log files. To overcome this problem, avoid direct updates on grant tables using the mentioned SQL statements.
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