Re: [Oscar-devel] ODA password

Thu, 27 Jan 2005 19:49:14 -0800

I think it's mainly a "we should do a reasonable job with security" philosophy, simply because we can. Put differently: there's no reason *not* to have a password, so why not have one?

Yes, root can always screw up anything. But that's not the point here. We have the ability to make the database [slightly] more secure, so why not do it?

My $0.02.

I don't have any strong feelings as to whether the user is prompted for this password or whether it's always randomly generated.


On Jan 26, 2005, at 11:28 AM, Bernard Li wrote:

Well - you must be root when you install the cluster, so root by default
has access to all the MySQL databases anyways, so why is the password
necessary? It's not like when you use the mysql client it asks you for
the password...

You probably don't want users to be able to mess with the oscar database
though, but since it was created by root, I don't think they have
access?

Cheers,

Bernard

-----Original Message-----
From: Lombard, David N [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2005 11:21
To: Bernard Li; OSCAR-devel
Subject: RE: [Oscar-devel] ODA password

Yup.  I *always* choose "Random password" and have never
otherwise dealt with it.

I don't know why we just don't do that automagically and
ditch the dialog.

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-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:oscar-devel-
[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bernard Li
Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2005 11:18 AM
To: OSCAR-devel
Subject: [Oscar-devel] ODA password

Can someone hit me with a cluebat as to why we need to
password protect 
the ODA database?

Thanks,

Bernard


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