[Cialug] Stupid ?

[david l goodrich]

You'll lose anonymous access to your databases.

I've always deleted it from my server.

On Tue, July 17, 2007 10:13 am, albus wrote:
> 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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