On Fri, 16 Mar 2001 13:35:18 -0500, Hardy Merrill
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>Sure it's easier, but which is safer?
>
>I don't have Charles first message on this topic, but I believe
>his error message was from logrotate which is a cron job.
>If Charles put
>
> mysqladmin -uuser -ppassword
>
>into a cron job, then the user's(root?) password would be in
>open view to anybody who could view the crontab - granted, you
>would have to be root to view the root crontab, but putting
>the password to the MySQL user right in the cron command is
>just a little too "loose" for me. A safer method would be to
>"hide" the user/pw in the Unix user's home directory in the
>..my.cnf file, as I outlined below.
Uh... root can read those too. If you're imagining a situation where
someone just rooted you in order to get access to MySQL, I guess it's
possible that doing it this way will slow him down by about 5
minutes, but I don't really think it's an issue.
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