Hey, guys,
first of all, thanks for this great skript!
I wrote two patches to support setting a login-path with the mysql_config_editor which can be used with automysqlbackup. Maybe you're interested in merge them into the official tree. Without this patch automysqlbackup ends up with warning because MySQL 5.6 does not like to give the password in cleartext on the console anymore.
kind regards
Andi