Gordon Burditt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
>
> There's a problem here: you need to have whatever
> information is needed to access MySQL (or any other database)
> in those files. If someone else on the same machine can get
> that information, he can also access the database. It
> does
Arjen G. Lentz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
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>Hi Tim,
>
>- Original Message -----
>From: "Tim Hewitt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>> It would be nice if mySQL supported some form of encrypted login
where
>> the username and password could be dec
Peter Lovatt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
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>This is not really a problem for me now, because I have my own server,
>and control who has access. This is a problem on virtual hosting,
>because anybody could be on there.
You are exactly correct. This problem is huge on virtual hosting
accoun
How does one go about securing database access username and password
information that's kept in a script's config file?
Most of the PHP and Perl applications floating around Sourceforge, as
well as most of the commercially available scripts, store the database
access username and password in a co
