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by eli 4531 days ago
That doesn't really make any sense. That's not a MySQL default, so you're saying they intentionally set the root user password to '*'? I'm not sure I buy that.
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infosecslave 4531 days ago
They're also running MySQL 3.
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eli 4531 days ago
Be that as it may, I'm pretty sure I've been using MySQL since version 3 and I don't recall '*' ever working as a password.
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