Re: insecure chrooting from mysqld

[Sergei Golubchik]

Hi!

On Nov 28, Markus wrote:
 Hey,
 
 The chroot command line option of mysqld is insecure. Databases which 
 are located for instance not in the chroot path can be accessed!

Fixed, thanks.
 
 More information can be found at
 
 http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=threadid=34314
 http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=threadid=34338

I always wondered why people spend so much time discussing a bug and
developing various howto and workarounds, instead of submitting a
bugreport and having the bug fixed in one hour. :))

Regards,
Sergei

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Re: insecure chrooting from mysqld

[Markus]

Hey,

 Fixed, thanks.

Good to know. Anyways I'll check it out in the next release!

 I always wondered why people spend so much time discussing a bug and
 developing various howto and workarounds, instead of submitting a
 bugreport and having the bug fixed in one hour. :))

I submitted the bug once I found it ... maybe my ISP has had some mail
problems! Anyways good to know it's fixed and people care about security 
in MySQL ;)


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