While installing cacti in a clean lxc container, I was asked for the
password of the MySQL administrative user. However, by default that's
not needed and indeed hitting return without providing anything worked.

As this was a clean container, MariaDB wasn't installed yet and I wasn't
asked to provide a password. So I as the user might not have been aware
that it was even installed and for sure I wouldn't know the password.

Paul

Hi Paul,

Not sure if I understand the issue here: while asking for a password,
the prompt also says "If left blank, a random password will be
generated." And hitting return without providing a password works. How
dbconfig-common should have behaved in your opinion?

Cheers,