Re: securing MySQL: easiest/best ways?

2012-05-09 Thread Peter Vereshagin
Hello. 2012/05/08 21:51:49 +0100 Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk = To freebsd-questions@freebsd.org : MS data dir shared between two servers. Keeping the configs with the data MS does have a few advantages. I know yet another reason to do this. In common case this isn't

securing MySQL: easiest/best ways?

2012-05-08 Thread Paul Beard
Monkeying with IPv6, I discovered that globally routable addresses are what it says on the tin, so hiding behind a network appliance is not longer viable for me. An nmap scan showed the port 3306 was hanging out for all to see but I couldn't figure out how to close it off. The

Re: securing MySQL: easiest/best ways?

2012-05-08 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 08/05/2012 14:49, Paul Beard wrote: Monkeying with IPv6, I discovered that globally routable addresses are what it says on the tin, so hiding behind a network appliance is not longer viable for me. An nmap scan showed the port 3306 was hanging out for all to see but I couldn't figure out

Re: securing MySQL: easiest/best ways?

2012-05-08 Thread Peter Vereshagin
Hello. 2012/05/08 06:49:01 -0700 Paul Beard paulbe...@gmail.com = To FreeBSD-questions : PB Monkeying with IPv6, I discovered that globally routable addresses are what it says on the tin, so hiding behind a network appliance is not longer viable for me. An nmap scan showed the port 3306 was

Re: securing MySQL: easiest/best ways?

2012-05-08 Thread Jerry
On Tue, 08 May 2012 15:34:02 +0100 Matthew Seaman articulated: Sounds almost as if the my.cnf you've been editing is not the my.cnf that your mysql instance is using. IIRC there was some talk about moving from the usual BSD-ish /var/db/mysql/my.cnf to /usr/local/etc/my.cnf (no doubt under some

Re: securing MySQL: easiest/best ways?

2012-05-08 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 08/05/2012 20:55, Jerry wrote: On Tue, 08 May 2012 15:34:02 +0100 Matthew Seaman articulated: Sounds almost as if the my.cnf you've been editing is not the my.cnf that your mysql instance is using. IIRC there was some talk about moving from the usual BSD-ish /var/db/mysql/my.cnf to

Re: securing MySQL: easiest/best ways?

2012-05-08 Thread Andre Goree
On Tue, 08 May 2012 15:55:36 -0400, Jerry je...@seibercom.net wrote: On Tue, 08 May 2012 15:34:02 +0100 Matthew Seaman articulated: Sounds almost as if the my.cnf you've been editing is not the my.cnf that your mysql instance is using. IIRC there was some talk about moving from the usual

Re: securing MySQL: easiest/best ways?

2012-05-08 Thread Jerry
On Tue, 08 May 2012 21:51:49 +0100 Matthew Seaman articulated: On 08/05/2012 20:55, Jerry wrote: On Tue, 08 May 2012 15:34:02 +0100 Matthew Seaman articulated: Sounds almost as if the my.cnf you've been editing is not the my.cnf that your mysql instance is using. IIRC there was some talk