~/.my.cnf not read in Ubuntu 20.04 and MariaDB 10.3.22

[Ken D'Ambrosio]

On 2020-09-08 11:02, Lentes, Bernd wrote:
> ----- Am 8. Sep 2020 um 15:18 schrieb Ken D'Ambrosio ken at jots.org:
> 
> 
>> File permissions, maybe?  I see it should be set to 600, and the file,
>> itself, would not need to be accessed to check the metadata on it.
>> 
> 
> root at nc-mcd:/root# ll .my.cnf
> -rw------- 1 root root 42 Sep  8 14:50 .my.cnf

Just tried it out myself, and it worked great.  My file:
# cat .my.cnf
[client]
user=root
password="mypassword"

Do note that, while reading up, I bumped into this, which might be 
relevant:
-
Note
A MySQL program started with the --no-defaults option reads no option 
files other than .mylogin.cnf.