As a Debian user for 20+ years i just want to thank you for your effort.
this post was submitted on 03 May 2025
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I don't use Debian (I'm a long-term Kubuntu user thinking about switching to tumbleweed) but I just wanted to say thank you, probably representing thousands of your "customers". Several of my private processes rely on MariaDB, so pass on my gratitude to your Ubuntu fellows ;-)
Not sure if I am doing something wrong but I always have to mess about to make a default user when installing. Be nice to setup a user during the package install.
And thank you!
What do you mean a default user? You can just run 'mariadb' to access to console with the same user that had permissions to run 'apt install'.
For your actual application you need to plan what database name to use, what user, what permissions it needs, potentially remote connection and TLS etc. This indeed is some work and could perhaps be automated a bit, but it also needs sysadmin to make some decisions.
That is why i said I may be doing something wrong. When installing i normally pull mariadb as a dependency and that is prob where my issue is coming.. this is prob more an issue with the other package and me not setting up the database and user for it before hand.
I will try to install mariadb and configure everything before hand and not pull mariadb as a dependency of my other package.
Every time I set up a new server I need to copy the config off a similar other server.
Instead, could you include a way to more quickly set up sensible defaults for various basic scenarios? e.g. leave the defaults alone in a 'Dev machine' scenario but options for 'web server' where you typically want mariadb to use 25% of RAM and another option for 'standaline dB server' where you want mariadb to use basically everything.
As user of Debian and MariaDB I also want to thank you for all your efforts!
MariaDB just works fine for me as it is (and was) integrated into Debian, so have unfortunately no idea or wishes for improvements.