Terry,

a couple of ideas here, I`m assuming you are not working locally but
remotely

Du Bois 'MySQL' book is handy also a copy of mysql Front as a gui.

Assuming you want to connect from a remote address, check mysql is running,
use /etc/rc.d/init.d/mysql start

if running mysql> grant all on *.* to [EMAIL PROTECTED] identified by
"newpaswd"
with grant option;

if using windows, use ipconfig at dos prompt to give your serverIP

If the above sticks, enter the remote ip address of mySQL in mySQL Front,
username and paswd above , remote port 3306, you can then set permissions
on tables etc from within mySQL, or if you have set up webmin you can do
this from webmin as well.

You can refine/filter user permissions and create new users using syntax:
Grant privileges (columns)
On what
To user IDENTIFIED BY 'passwd'
WITH GRANT OPTION

check Du Bois on managing user accounts as well

and test these by setting up different accounts in mySQL Front

Assuming these are working I`d set up a unique connection to a new mysql
datasource for each user with their own passwd/username in CF MX rather than
try
passing this info on cfquery.

Colm

-----Original Message-----
From: Terry Riley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 23 July 2004 15:26
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [ cf-dev ] CF and MySQL premissions



I'm having problems with figuring out how this would work on CFMX6.1 (with
MySQL 4.1.3 beta).

Perhaps some kind person with experience of MySQL/MX, could advise on this
lovely Friday afternoon.

In CFAdmin, when the database is registered, you give a username and
password, and the only one which seems to work here is the root user and
password (ie superuser) set in MySQL, which is fair enough if you want to
grant all users on your site access to all db functions. But naturally,
one doesn't want to do that.

So I tried creating another entity (webuser) with an appropriate password,
that has only 'select' privileges, within MySQL. But if I use this
username/password in a cfquery, it is naturally rejected (are you sure
you've got MySQL server running on 3306?'), no doubt because it is
expecting the initial registered username/password combination (which
works, of course).

What I'd like to set up is a set of 'accounts' in which superuser has all
privs, 'webuser' has select only, and 'webadmin' has select, update,
insert, delete privileges.

The application concerned is not one in which logging in just to view data
is an option. Logging in to do admin work, however, is required.

Anyone know how this is done with MySQL? Am I on a hiding to nothing with
this? Is my brain fried?

Cheers
Terry

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