Spring Boot - spring.jpa.hibernate - how to call with sudo?

Question

I am working on a project for my work and the way they setup the mysql server to be able to connect I need to do

sudo myqsl -p

When I try to launch my spring boot app, it fails to connect to the mysql server.. How can I tell jpa hibernate to call the mysql with sudo rights? Is it even possible ?

I have tried launching the spring boot jar with sudo and it doesn't carry on to the mysql connection somehow

My application.properties contain those credentials

spring.jpa.hibernate.ddl-auto=update
spring.datasource.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/mood
spring.datasource.username=user
spring.datasource.password=password

The database mood exists on the server and the user also exist. I can connect via ssh without any issues, using sudo.

Any help is appreciated!

Answer 1

No, it's not possible to connect to mysql in JPA with sudo rights, but you should be able to connect using the JDBC Connection string:

jdbc:mysql://localhost:portnumber:username:password

As a test, why don't you code a little class that will connect to the database, perform a simple SELECT statement and bring back a result set.

You shouldn't have to connect to the mysql client with sudo, but I infer that when you say "they setup" you mean the system admins. Ask them nicely to set up the mysql client as a normal command.