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Environment variables

Georg Richter edited this page Sep 17, 2024 · 3 revisions

Environment variables

MariaDB Connector/C makes use of numerous environment variables that may be set on your system. With a few exceptions environment variables have the lowest precedence, so any options set on the command line or in an option file will take precedence.

Environment variables used by MariaDB Connector/C

Environment variable Description
MARIADB_PLUGIN_DIR Directory which contains client plugins e.g. for authentication
MARIADB_HOME MariaDB Home directory. If specified, default configuration will be also read from this directory
MARIADB_TLS_DISABLE_PEER_VERIFICATION If set peer certificate verification (default since version 3.4.0) will be disabled. This option was added in version 3.4.2
MYSQL_PWD Password for the current user
MYSQL_TCP_PORT Port number of remote database server
MYSQL_UNIX_PORT Name of the unix socket file
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