On 11/03/13 00:17, Yuri Astrakhan wrote: > Answered Inline. Also, I apologize as I think my email was slightly > off-topic to Ori's question. > > On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 6:57 PM, Matthew Flaschen > <mflasc...@wikimedia.org>wrote: > >> PHPMyAdmin also has major security issues. It isn't allowed on >> Wikimedia Labs and probably shouldn't be used here. Why does SQLite >> need to be installed exactly? >> > > Matthew, we are talking about a developer's virtual machine that has no > network connection to anything except the developer's machine itself, and > used purely for development. MySql could be accessed through the network if > I have the local tools, but if we are talking about the lowest barrier of > entry, the novice could follow a few steps to get VM and edit code with > anything including notepad, while the VM would have most of the tools to > examine and experiment with MediaWiki. BTW, samba would also be a massive > security hole - I set mine up to share / with no password root access (no > network, no issues)
While popular, I don't think PHPMyAdmin is the best tool for managing the tables, either. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
