At 10:00 PM -0800 2/10/01, Thomas DeMartini wrote:
>I've been looking for a way to disable logging to mysql_history on a
>global basis. Does anyone know of a way to do this? If so, please
>e-mail me at this address (I don't check the list). If not, can
>someone tell me how to submit a feature request?
>
>My current work-around is to create the file ~/.mysql_history with
>no permissions so that MySQL can't write it if it wanted to.
>Fortunately MySQL doesn't complain about that and lets me go.
You could also make it a link to /dev/null.
>
>I'm looking for something like a command line option:
> mysql --history=no
>and/or the related functionality in the /etc/my.cnf file.
>
>The problem I have is that a lot of my users type passwords into
>their MySQL queries to insert them into the tables and then other
>users without MySQL access come along and look at the first user's
>.mysql_history file (which is created 644 by default) to look at the
>passwords. Then they go to the web
Perhaps each user's home directory should be set to 700 to keep out other
users. Is that a possibility?
Another possibility: set each user's umask to 022. Then the .mysql_history
file will be created mode 600, not 644.
>site that the first user setup and pretend to be the other people
>who's passwords were in the history file. I'd like to be able to
>setup my site so that by default it doesn't write a history file
>unless the user specifies mysql --history=yes or the equivalent.
>
>Thanks,
>Thomas.
>Please send replies to [EMAIL PROTECTED], I don't check the list.
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Paul DuBois, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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