Re: Passwords and SSH port forwarding (was: Alternative to phpMyAdmin)

Works just fine ... as does postgres -- ssh -N -2 -f -C -c blowfish -L3306:yourdatabase.server.here:3306 you@yourdatabase.server.here or the other usual tricks work too ... like going through a firewall (fyi ... clear text on the *other* side of the firewall): ssh -N -2 -f -C -c blowfish -L3306:db_behind_thefirewall:3306 you@firewall.running.ssh The only oddity is that you will have to use the local host *address* 127.0.0.1 to connect from the mysql client as it normally looks for a local socket if you use 'localhost', so your connection will be: mysql -h 127.0.0.1 for postgres examples, change the port numbers (3306) to 5432 On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 06:39:51PM -0400, Egan wrote: > On Fri, 13 Jul 2001 12:28:37 -0400, "Matthew Loff" <matt@willetts.com> > wrote: > > >> Does mysql-front encrypt the password before it travels the net? > > >It does support the compressed client/server protocol, which would make > >it harder to intercept-- but encryption is not an option yet on the > >client. > > > >I don't suppose there's any way on Win32 to use an SSH tunnel, is there? > > > I use SSH port forwarding to protect FTP passwords into my server. > Getting FTP to work with SSH port forwarding was more tricky than POP > or SMTP, but it can be done. Also, the FTP server itself can be an > obstacle to making it work, depending on how it's configured. > > Funny that, after figuring it out the first time, now it doesn't seem > so tricky after all. > > It might work with MySQL, but I have not tried it. > > Egan > > > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net -- Hank Marquardt <hank@yerpso.net> http://web.yerpso.net Web & Database Development in PHP, MySQL/PostgreSQL Small Office Networking Solutions - Debian GNU/Linux & FreeBSD PHP Instructor - HTML Writers Guild <http://www.hwg.org> *** PHP II "The Cool Stuff" starts July 16, 2001 *** http://www.hwg.org/services/classes/p181.1.html