On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 10:21:25PM +0100, Nick Middleweek wrote: > Hello, > > Here's what I'd like to do... > > * Create a new user in mysql.
See the "GRANT" command in the manual. > * Let them login and create a new database. Ditto. > * I want this database to be only viewable by the > user that created it and also the mysql administrator. Ditto. > * I would like that user to be able to create users as > well but they can only see databases created by the > original user. Note the "WITH GRANT OPTION" part of the docs for the "GRANT" command. > Is this at all possible? If I understood your right, sort of. You probably don't want users to be able to directly create users. Maybe via a web interface? > How do ISPs offer MySQL databases? > Surely they don't have an instance of mysql per web site hosted!? Some do. Most don't. It all depends. :-) > Maybe they've done it through their own interfaces to mysql but > can't that be hacked? Yeah, most web software is rather buggy and can probably be hacked without a lot of effort. Face it, few PHP "developers" really understand much about application security. It's sad but true. Jeremy -- Jeremy D. Zawodny | Perl, Web, MySQL, Linux Magazine, Yahoo! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://jeremy.zawodny.com/ MySQL 3.23.51: up 46 days, processed 1,002,966,168 queries (247/sec. avg) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
