At 2:51 PM -0500 3/19/08, Brown, Charles wrote:
I inherited a mysql server database. Stuff are not documented. My question is: Are there any security work-arounds in mysql. I have access to the cnf file. I need to get in and dump the database. I was told that the cnf file allows security over rides. Please help
If you were told that, perhaps you could ask the person(s) who told you that what they meant and how to do it. :-) Information in other followups about --skip-grant-tables is useful, too. You can start the server that way, connect as root w/no password, issue a FLUSH PRIVILEGES statement to re-enable the grant tables (so that you can use CREATE USER, GRANT, etc.), and then set up the accounts the way you want (new root password and so forth). -- Paul DuBois, MySQL Documentation Team Madison, Wisconsin, USA MySQL AB, www.mysql.com -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
