On Wed 19.Nov'08 at 15:02:56 -0500, Guy Dickinson wrote: > Greetings, RT Users: > Some internal systems changes have prompted me to migrate my database > backend from its present location on the same server as the RT web > frontend to a separate database server elsewhere. To comply with our > security standards, the database traffic should be encrypted, so I > implemented MySQL's builtin SSL encryption for the database traffic. > > I took inspiration for the implementation from a rt-users mailing list > post by Mike Friedman > (http://lists.bestpractical.com/pipermail/rt-users/2007-April/045347.html). > In patch syntax, the precise change I made to RT::Handle was So, isn't there an environment variable one can set to have DBD::mysql pick this up? > > I am currently using RT 3.6.7 and will likely upgrade to RT 3.8.x in the > relatively near future. Will that upgrade--or future ones--provide a > 'sanctioned' facility to implement SSL mySQL encryption, and will my > current hack in Handle.pm result in unintended consequences elsewhere in > RT when I upgrade? Your hack looks pretty reasonable. I'd like to hear some feedback on whether there's a cleaner way to do this before canonizing it in the core ;) > > Thanks! > Guy > > -- > ------------------ > Guy Dickinson, Network Security Analyst > NYU ITS Technology Security Services > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > (212) 998-3052 > _______________________________________________ > http://lists.bestpractical.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rt-users > > Community help: http://wiki.bestpractical.com > Commercial support: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Discover RT's hidden secrets with RT Essentials from O'Reilly Media. > Buy a copy at http://rtbook.bestpractical.com > --
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