On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 12:58 PM, Paul Saenz <[email protected]> wrote: > I installed MySQL on my Ubuntu desktop, (I'm still using Feisty, but I don't > think that should matter, it's updated) and I noticed that in the MySQL > documentation it said I need to set a password for the root admin account, > and an anonymous account, which both have root permissions. I used the > commands that they posted on the website to do just that, but MySQL doesn't > seem to recognize what I am doing. In other words, it won't let me log in. > The port is set to 3306(MySQL) by default, but it does not accept my log in, > in MySQL Aministration, (or mysql-admin) package.
How exactly did you do it? Typically, you log in with the mysql command line util and do couple of GRANT commands. Note that those GRANT commands don't take effect until you either restart mysql or do a "FLUSH PRIVILEGES" on that mysql commandline. > My question is, as long as I kill all the MySQL PIDs, will I be secure, when > I'm online? > In other words, if the MySQL PIDs are killed, then isn't it true that no-one > can hack into mysql, because it's turned off? Nothing is listening, so that is correct. > Another question: > After I installed mysql, I noticed that evolution was running when I checked > htop. Is evolution a default install for ubuntu 7.04, or is it part of > mysql? Evolution seems to install itself automatically. > Is there a way to configure ubuntu, or even linux, so that certain Processes > will not start on startup, so I don't have to kill them every time I start > up, but I don't want to uninstall them. So that I can turn them on later > when I want them? Correct. update-rc.d is what I've used to add and remove services (same as chkconfig on RH/CentOS/Mandriva), but with the new upstart replacement of sysvinit, I've not delved into what is changing. -- Regards... Todd
