Re: secure web server to database server connection

2001-01-26 Thread Jeremy D. Zawodny
On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 10:39:46AM -0600, Patrick Goetz wrote: > > Thanks for the response. > > On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Jeremy D. Zawodny wrote: > > > It just occurred to me, however, that this becomes a much bigger > > > problem when the web server(s) and the database server are running > > > on d

Re: secure web server to database server connection

2001-01-26 Thread Mark Maunder
Hi Patrick, You can try something like: ssh -L 6969:ukdb-qa: root@ukdb-qa Use the above on a remote host (lets call it wms-qa). This assumes ukdb-qa is running a mysqld on port . This command will cause wms-qa to listen on port 6969 for connections and forward them all across a secure con

Re: secure web server to database server connection

2001-01-26 Thread Patrick Goetz
Thanks for the response. On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Jeremy D. Zawodny wrote: > > It just occurred to me, however, that this becomes a much bigger > > problem when the web server(s) and the database server are running > > on different machines. > > Only if they're on different networks. Ideally, you

Re: secure web server to database server connection

2001-01-25 Thread Jeremy D. Zawodny
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 10:01:59PM -0600, Patrick Goetz wrote: > > Currently, every system I've set up is small enough so as to have > the web server and the database server on the same machine. > Consequently, loss of security due to packet-sniffing can be > completely controlled by using, say,

secure web server to database server connection

2001-01-25 Thread Patrick Goetz
Currently, every system I've set up is small enough so as to have the web server and the database server on the same machine. Consequently, loss of security due to packet-sniffing can be completely controlled by using, say, apache-ssl, since communications between the web server and the database