That fixed it. While I’m not all that thrilled with no root password being on the mysql (mariadb) service on the server, it’s behind a dedicated hardware based firewall, so the risk should be minimal. Once the password was reset to nothing, it allowed me to run vitalpbx build-db, which in turn resolved the extensions problem. For those that need the command to reset the password to nothing, its:
mysqladmin -u root -p'oldpassword' password ''
Thanks!
