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Re:Security Notification and Linode Manager Password Reset by ryanlol on Tuesday January 05, 2016 @05:17PM (#10846486)
https://blog.linode.com/2014/01/19/an-old-system-and-a-swat-...

They try to downplay it pretty hard.

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Re:Security Notification and Linode Manager Password Reset by technion on Tuesday January 05, 2016 @08:15PM (#10847656)
Thanks for this link. Although it talks about:

    database accessed using old forum credentials
So I'm not sure "anonymous login" would be an entirely accurate description.
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Re:Security Notification and Linode Manager Password Reset by ryanlol on Tuesday January 05, 2016 @08:27PM (#10847721)
The server would in fact accept any credentials as it had been started with --skip-grant-tables. Tested it myself.
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