Hi Steve,
I understood that usually the data required to connect to a db is stored in a
outsorced php file. For mysql clients you can define usernamepassword etc. in
the my.cnf configuration file, but I am not sure if a PHP client would access
this file.
Best regards
Nils Valentin
as far as i know, php won't by default log in as some my.cnf user.
but you can set a default username/passwort/dbname etc. in the php.ini, should be in
the [mysql] section.
as a little additional 'security' (if one could call it that) can be achieved by
masking the username/password in the php
Steven,
I'm currently running a LAMP setup much like the one you described. A
plain text username and password is really the best way to go for giviing
PHP what it needs to access MySQL. There are other options, but they are a
lot of work to implement and in my opinion not worth the
The point of the hash is that it doesn't matter who sees the data,
right?
username | passwordhash | ipaddress | permission
adam | AALKJA2344AFDS | 10.1.1.1 | rwxrwxr--
jake | 45324AFSDAF3423 | 10.1.1.1 | rwxrwxr--
tyrone | AALKJFF323FSDAF | 10.1.1.1 | rwxrwxr--
All you can ever do is compare
