Re: mysql connect password security

From: Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 17:09:56 +0000
Subject: Re: mysql connect password security
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>I discovered that I can right click save as on a php script and get the unparsed script Really? Then your webserver's really badly misconfigured, or rather malfunctioning. You should be getting resulting HTML (or whatever your PHP code produces, for that matter). At 18:00 23.12. 2000, Dane Morgan wrote the following: -------------------------------------------------------------- >Hi all! > >Is there any way I can secure my mysql connection password if I do not have access on my server >below the document root? I will be storing all sensitive data on my site in mysql and it seems that >if I can protect this one password, I'll be pretty secure, but I discovered that I can right >click save as on a php script and get the unparsed script which will trot my password right out >there for Grandma to take a look at. I can't see a way around this. ------end of quote------ ____________________________________________________________ Cynic: A member of a group of ancient Greek philosophers who taught that virtue constitutes happiness and that self control is the essential part of virtue. cynic@mail.cz

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