[ILUG-BOM] MySQL encrypted passwords..

[Dinesh A. Joshi]

Vinayakam Murugan wrote:
> If he knew how to do it , he wouldn't have asked. If you don't want to help,
> don't. There might be others in the list who might want to help.
>   

Dear Vinayakam: Please do take some time out and read my reply 
*correctly*. It not only gave him the answer to whatever he wanted but 
also pointed out that he should've figured it out himself. MySQL has 
some very good docs. If there was an answer to his problem it would be 
in there. Since its not there, its sufficient to assume that he'll have 
to do it himself ( Isn't that the whole point of FOSS / Linux ? ). There 
are only so many ways to obfuscate your password. So my point still 
stood - he should've figured it out himself

> In my opinion, he compared MySQL to Oracle to put across his point.
>   

So? He had a specific requirement and many people do have such 
requirements. I asked him to file a bug report with MySQL so that they 
may include it as a feature in one of their future releases. Instead of 
copying features from other softwares if he can contribute an original 
feature that would be a good thing :)

- Dinesh