RE: [PHP-GENERAL] MySQL Question
| From: | Jason | Date: | Wed, 14 Jun 2000 21:34:42 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP-GENERAL] MySQL Question | ||
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With security issues such as this taken into consideration, is there
anything wrong with MySQL running as root? If the user permissions are
closely monitored and it doesn't allow remote connections?
Jason
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Burney [mailto:burney@gseis.ucla.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2000 3:25 PM
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> >> However, I read that this brings up security
> >> issues specifically if MySQL runs as root. This would give
> the user the
> >> ability to read and write files as root, which is a bad thing.
>
> If I remember correctly, this is what made the Apache.org site
> vulnerable a while back. Be careful.
>
> Paul
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