How to set root password using salt states

Question

I want to set strong password for mysql root user. But there is a egg-hen problem. I have empty server. I salt it. The root password is empty (by default after install).

If I use

root: 
  mysql_user.present:
  - name: root
  - password: $ecur3h4x0r
  - host: %

Then I would not be able to call any other mysql states because they would need the password. But the next time I do highstate this call would not work, because the state tries to connect with empty password.

Answer 1

Yeah, we're going to add a 'default_user' and 'default_pass' setting so you can handle this situation. It should be in 0.17.0