[Cialug] Stupid ?

[albus]

I'll need remote in the office and some times outside remote.
Of which I'll have to setup on my proxy firewall for outside access when needed.
Plus I've blocked all port 3306 from anywhere to everything internal 3306.
Along with blocking on the server with iptables on top of all that.

I take it you add the bind address in my.cnf?

But what about deleting that account? What's it going to hose it deleted?


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Pohl" <tom at tcpconsulting.com>
To: "Central Iowa Linux Users Group" <cialug at cialug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 9:41 AM
Subject: Re: [Cialug] Stupid ?


> Do you really need to be able to talk to your mysql server remotely?
> 
> If not, I would add --bind-address=127.0.0.1 to your mysql startup  
> command.
> 
> If so, I would use iptables to limit the source ips to only allow  
> your machines to talk to port 3306 of your mysql server.
> 
> -Tom
> 
> On Jul 17, 2007, at 9:33 AM, albus wrote:
> 
>> My turn for stupid questions today.
>>
>> What happens if you delete the ANY user in MySql?
>> It isn't tied to any database and the account has no rights but I  
>> read it can do some things that could casue DoS attack.
>> Plus other no, no's
>>
>> Just wondering cause I'm thinking real hard of deleting it or at least
>> put a password on it.
>>
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