Homestead

After putting the solution in my previous post through its paces for a few weeks, I realized the less intrusive approach is to patch Homestead v2's scripts/create-mysql.sh with the following snippet:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

cat > /etc/mysql/conf.d/password_expiration.cnf << EOF
[mysqld]
default_password_lifetime = 0
EOF

service mysql restart

DB=$1;

mysql -e "CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS \
Addressing Laravel Homestead MySQL Password Expiration
January 7, 2017 · 3 min read
On November 7th 2016, I was hit with a peculiar issue I've never seen before working in a provisioned Homestead box. The
exception:
PDOException in Connector.php line 55:
SQLSTATE[HY000] [1862] Your password has expired. To log in you must change it using a client that supports expired passwords.
Firing up a different vagrant machine, I was greeted with the same problem. This seemed to affect all of the vagrant
boxes using version laravel/homestead (virtualbox, 0.3.3).
On the machine, the MySQL version displayed by mysql  ...