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mysql-5.6 package

  1. Bug #1447944
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 1447944

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BjoernR (bjoern-rafreider) wrote : Re: Cannot access mariadb after upgrading to Ubuntu 15.04: Plugin 'unix_socket' is not loaded

after an update to 15.04. my system was affected too;
after some research I added

plugin-load=auth_socket.so

ty my.cnf, now authenticated users (like root) can access the databases without entering a database password.

see https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/unix_socket-authentication-plugin/