Re: mysql connect password security
| From: | Cynic | Date: | Sat, 23 Dec 2000 17:09:56 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: mysql connect password security | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.general |
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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:
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>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.
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