MySQL/PHP Tunneling

2004-07-10 Thread Karam Chand
Hello, Recently lot of MySQL clients try to overcome host based privilege system of MySQL by using PHP tunneling method. In this method they call up a PHP file in the server and the PHP file executes a query and sends the data in XML format. I am using C API() and I was just wondering if

Re: MySQL/PHP Tunneling

2004-07-10 Thread Eldon Ziegler
Karam, A much more secure way is to use OpenSSH (www.openssh.org) to create an encrypted connection between the local machine and the MySQL server and to use the -L option to forward MySQL commands from the localhost to the MySQL server. For example, ssh -l Login account URL or IP Address of