Yes, it's real and it is not easy to reset the password. You will find conflicting information on the password requirements even with the same page it implies you need 2 examples of uppercase, lowercase, punctuation/symbols and numbers but that is false.
It is compounded worse that it never gives you the correct information below unless you are in private mode in your browser.
Here is what you really need for a working and insecure Alibaba password:........
The "passwords do not match" implies or makes it appear that your auth code is wrong but actually you have to click "View additional settings" and then see there are 2 password fields to manage the domain once it is transferred (the password is typed twice for confirmation). Simply fill out a password twice or remove the first password fields contents and all will be well.........
mysqldump does not include CREATE DATABASE statement
you need the --databases option
"--databases" is misleading, it implies in the documentation that this is a list of databases to be dumped, it should be clear that uses this command in conjuction with dumping a single database also adds CREATE DATABASE and is the only way to get the database to automatically create itself.........
hdparm -B 255 /dev/sdb
/dev/sdb:
setting Advanced Power Management level to disabled
HDIO_DRIVE_CMD failed: Input/output error
The one thing you can do though is to set hdparm spindown time lower (it doesn't seem to work that well).
-S set standby (spindown) timeout
hdparm -S 251 /dev/sda
/dev/sda:
setti........
This is a great way to use your ftp server space, for example on your web hosting account (althoughI believe many hosts don't allow storage like this), but if you have a VPS/Dedicated Server etc.., this would be perfect. Imagine how easy it is to work with an ftp account that you can just mount as a normal partition or directory in Linux, it would be great for backups etc..
Name
curlftpfs - mount a ftp host as a local directory
Synopsis........
This happened with a select statement which writes the result to an external file. I didn't remember the privilege "FILE" must be granted on *.* for this to work successfully, it wasn't actually an authentication issue as it implies since I was already in the SQL prompt and doing the query.
SELECT some_id
FROM sometable
INTO OUTFILE '/tmp/result.txt'........