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Document socket-based access #657

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@kasimon kasimon commented Sep 5, 2022

If mysqld_exporter runs on the same system as the database, socket based authentication removes the need to manage a password.

Signed-off-by: Karsten Heymann [email protected]

If mysqld_exporter runs on the same system as the database, socket based authentication removes the need to manage a password.

Signed-off-by: Karsten Heymann <[email protected]>

```shell
## run as user mysqld_exporter:
export DATA_SOURCE_NAME="mysqld_exporter:@unix(/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock)/"
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Thanks, but we need to update this to use the new config file format or command line flag (--mysqld.address=).

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How would the new format look like?

i tried both, but it doesn't seem to work:

--mysqld.address="unix(/var/run/mariadb/mysql.sock)"

2023-07-05T16:16:30.833935 02:00 db mariadb_exporter[3181430]: ts=2023-07-05T14:16:30.832Z caller=mysqld_exporter.go:225 level=info msg="Error parsing host config" file=.my.cnf err="failed to parse address: address unix(/var/run/mariadb/mysql.sock): missing port in address"
--mysqld.address="unix:///var/run/mariadb/mysql.sock"

2023-07-05T16:17:31.077223 02:00 db mariadb_exporter[3181808]: ts=2023-07-05T14:17:31.075Z caller=config.go:146 level=error msg="failed to parse config" section=client err="set field \"port\": strconv.ParseInt: parsing \"///var/run/mariadb/mysql.sock\": invalid syntax"

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