From 066acb0940bebc3224a531e66b5daee09888f4d8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Billy Noah <billynoah@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2019 16:06:58 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Update mysqltuner.pl

Check to make sure mysql.user has a column called 'password'.  Adjust security_recommendations queries accordingly.

This should address issues:
https://github.com/major/MySQLTuner-perl/issues/427
https://github.com/major/MySQLTuner-perl/issues/441
https://github.com/major/MySQLTuner-perl/issues/442
---
 mysqltuner.pl | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mysqltuner.pl b/mysqltuner.pl
index fe63f5c..9bd86a0 100755
--- a/mysqltuner.pl
+++ b/mysqltuner.pl
@@ -1738,8 +1738,14 @@ sub security_recommendations {
 
     my $PASS_COLUMN_NAME = 'password';
     if ( $myvar{'version'} =~ /5\.7|10\..*MariaDB*/ ) {
-        $PASS_COLUMN_NAME =
+        my $password_column_exists = `$mysqlcmd $mysqllogin -Bse "SELECT 1 FROM information_schema.columns WHERE TABLE_SCHEMA = 'mysql' AND TABLE_NAME = 'user' AND COLUMN_NAME = 'password'" 2>>/dev/null`;
+        if ($password_column_exists) {
+            $PASS_COLUMN_NAME =
 "IF(plugin='mysql_native_password', authentication_string, password)";
+        }
+        else {
+            $PASS_COLUMN_NAME = 'authentication_string';
+        }
     }
     debugprint "Password column = $PASS_COLUMN_NAME";