If you have Apache and MySQL servers make this experiment -
start Apache but "forget" to start SQL and go to your site
http://localhost/... you will see yourself all the information on the
screen.
Youri
On 7 Aug 2001, at 12:53, Ryan Christensen wrote:
> I'm curious as to how the "hacker" would see all this information (the
> username.. password, etc..) just by going to a site where the SQL backend
> was down?
>
> Ryan
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: BRACK [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 12:36 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: [PHP] MySQL connection
> >
> >
> > I just wanned to bring the issue of security of MySQL connection:
> >
> > Let us imagine that SQL server was down for some hours (of
> > course without us knowing it) and at the same hours our SQL site
> > was visited by some kind of hacker, he can see on his screen all
> > our SQL connection info like username, password, and database
> > name. You may hide this information in different file than the file
> > that your users open then the hacker will see something like
> > "include("connect.inc");" or "require("connect.inc");" (of course IF
> > server is down). So you may only imagine the consequences of
> > this visit of the hacker. What can we do to protect our sensitive
> > information if SQL server is down?
> >
> > Youri
> >
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