Since we now have an attribute that knows whether to install mariadb or mysql, it's possible to use another attribute to store which column should be used for the user password.
Passwordfor mariadb
authentication_string for mysql
I advanced this a little bit more. On PR #14 you can check how i integrated this in the attributes/default.rb to take into account mysql/percona/mariadb versions.
Since we now have an attribute that knows whether to install mariadb or mysql, it's possible to use another attribute to store which column should be used for the user password.
Password
for mariadbauthentication_string
for mysqlShould fix issue https://github.com/chr4-cookbooks/mysqld/issues/12