mysqldump - /etc/mysql/ 'password' is more important than all DBeaver settings

System information:

• Linux Mint 19.1 (Ubuntu 18.04 based)
• DBeaver 5.3.5, 5.1.6
• openjdk 10.0.2
• local database MariaDB 10.1.38

Connection specification:

• MySQL 5.5 and MariaDB 10.1.37
• MySQL and MariaDB
• tried with tunnel and without

Describe the problem you’re observing:

I can connect to remote servers as I always could, but when I try to dump database using DBeaver, it shows that access is denied by database. I tried same mysqldump parameters by command line with added ‘-p’ and it worked. Setting special Authentication for mysqldump in DBeaver did not help. I tried with ‘save password locally’ and without.

-- Connecting to 149.202.xx.xx...
mysqldump: Got error: 1045: "Access denied for user 'root'@'212.91.xx.xx' (using password: YES)" when trying to connect

Steps to reproduce:

1. Edit MariaDB config and set there password, to make it possible to connect to database by command line from any user without password: /etc/mysql/conf.d/mysqldump.cnf or /etc/mysql/mariadb.conf.d/50-client.cnf

[mysqldump]
user=root
password=MySecretPassword

or:

[client]
user=root
password=MySecretPassword

1. Try to dump database of any remote host. No matter what password and where you set in DBeaver, it will send your password from MariaDB config to remote server.

It should use password configured in DBeaver!

I know that security experts will post that I should not store root password in file. It’s development machine - there is nothing important in database.

Include any warning/errors/backtraces from the logs

Nothing special in logs.

[uslss]

@fluxsauce thanks for testing and information. Ticket is reopened

[cccaballero]

I am getting this exact same issue with mariadb 10.3.31 and DBeaver 21.2.3 the DB dump fais with error:

mysqldump: Got error: 1045: "Access denied for user 'xxxx'@'xxxxxx' (using password: NO)" when trying to connect

Is not using password to connect to DB.