Re: MySQL Question

Actually, I was just reading the same thing. The reason is that users that have FILE permission will be able to write files and have them be owned by root. Jason, you might want to check this out: http://www.mysql.com/Manual_chapter/manual_Privilege_system.html#Security Paul DuBois wrote: > Don't run the MySQL server as root unless you have a very good reason > to do so and you understand the security implications of doing this. > (For example, the server has full access to every file on the machine > where it's running.) > > In fact, recent versions of the server will refuse to run as root unless > you explicitly specify --user=root indicating that you want it to run that > way. > > -- > Paul DuBois, paul@snake.net