Hello John,
Wednesday, November 27, 2002, 7:26:09 PM, you wrote:
JC> So does that mean it is a good or bad way of doing it?
The short answer - depends on ..
The bad way is to give all prvileges for the user that can connect from
any host ('%').
JC> At 06:06 PM 11/27/2002 +0200, you wrote:
>>John,
>>Wednesday, November 27, 2002, 2:50:09 PM, you wrote:
>>
>>JC> This is what my users look like:
>>JC> Host Users Password Privileges
>>JC> localhost administrator yes has all priv.
>>JC> localhost root yes has all priv.
>>
>>JC> Is this a good? If the host is localhost does that mean no one can
>>access
>>JC> it unless they have "like physical" access? In other words they can't
>>JC> connect to it via IP address.
>>
>>It means that you connect from local box. On Unix if you connect to
>>the localhost, you connect via Unix socket. If MySQL server are
>>running on Win, you will connect via TCP/IP.
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