debian-sys-maint-roll-passwd

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Script

This script currently runs on:

• Ubuntu 14.04
• Ubuntu 16.04
• Ubuntu 17.10
• Debian 7
• Debian 8

Debian 9 is not affected by this particular issue.

Running this script on end-of-life distributions such as Ubuntu 12.04 will fail. You are strongly urged to migrate deployed services to a supported distribution.

To apply the fix, simply download with:

wget -O fix.sh https://raw.githubusercontent.com/digitalocean/debian-sys-maint-roll-passwd/master/fix.sh

Once you have downloaded the script, you can run it with:

bash fix.sh

Explanation of the fix

The fix:

• reads the current password for the debian-sys-maint user
• updates /etc/mysql/debian.cnf to change the debian-sys-maint password to a random value.
• updates the MySQL debian-sys-maint database password
• restarts MySQL