There are many thing changed in MySQL 5.6 which are related to passwords: There is a new password hash algorithm (SHA-256) There is obfuscation for passwords with the .mylogin.cnf file. The option to store slave passwords in a database table. It's now possible to supply a password to START SLAVE. But that's not what this blog post is about. This blog post is a great new feature: Hiding passwords from your log files, automatically. MySQL 5.6 will by default hide passwords from the general log. This is not just obfuscation as only the one-way hash will be put in the log files. By setting log-raw=OFF you can disable password hiding for the general log. The log-raw setting will only influence the general log, so the passwords in the slow query log and the binary logs will still be hidden. With MySQL 5.5 this could be done manually by first storing the hash in a variable, but like many other work-arounds this is not needed anymore. But it doesn't stop there. Accor...