Connecting to MySQL without password prompt

If you are (like me) annoyed by providing password at every mysql login, you can skip it. Also it makes easier programmatic access to any MySQL db, as not passwd prompting is necessary :)

Create ~/.my.cnf file:

[client]
user=username
password="pass"

[mysql]
user=username
password="pass"

And login without -p parameter:

mysql -h host -u username dbname

If you want to use ~/.my.cnf file in Python MySQLdb, just connect using this:

import MySQLdb
cnx = MySQLdb.connect(host=host, port=port, read_default_file="~/.my.cnf")

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