Paul,
Your probably right about him running on windows, but I have also seen this
in other situations running linux. In fact, and yes I am almost ashamed to
say, I even set one up this way in my earlier days. It was on a local
network with no internet, and the "users" were on a custom app connecting
through libmysql.dll. I know, not the smartest thing to do but the "users"
had no Idea about computers and probabaly didn't even know there was a DB
server. So let the tongue lashing commence.
Roger
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul DuBois [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 10:02 PM
> To: Roger Davis; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
> At 21:17 -0400 7/8/03, Roger Davis wrote:
> >localhost does not mean 127.0.0.1 Localhost is the socket to
> connect to and
> >has is separate from IP addresses. The % is for IP address
> access. That is
> >why there are 2 ways. I would hardly call that redundant.
> >
> >Roger
>
> That's true on Unix, but if Jim (the original poster) has entries
> for [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED], then he's probably running on Windows,
> and Unix sockets are irrelevant. localhost can be used for named pipe
> connections, though: the [EMAIL PROTECTED] entry will work for that,
> whereas [EMAIL PROTECTED] will not.
>
> Note too that because [EMAIL PROTECTED] allows access to any remote host anywhere,
> it's particularly important to make sure either that that account has
> a password or that you remove it. Otherwise your server is wide open.
>
>
>
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Joel Rees [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >> Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 8:30 PM
> >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >> Subject: Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>
> >>
> >> > Not sure where these came from, but in my users I've got a
> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] and a
> >> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is this redundant, or is there a reason for this?
> >>
> >> Well, some people might say it's redundant, but it _is_ by design --
> >>
> >> http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Privileges.html
> >>
> >> > ...
> >>
> >> --
> >> Joel Rees, programmer, Kansai Systems Group
> >> Altech Corporation (Alpsgiken), Osaka, Japan
> > > http://www.alpsgiken.co.jp
>
>
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