Login To MySQL without Credentials

In that example we have configured for root user to login to MySQL without Credentials.

[root@ip-172-xx-xx-x ~]# mysql_config_editor set --user=root --login-path=client --password

Enter password:

[root@ip-172-xx-xx-x ~]# mysql

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Your MySQL connection id is 15

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mysql> select user();

+----------------+

| user()     |

+----------------+

| root@localhost |

+----------------+

1 row in set (0.00 sec)