Re: Jailed MySQL for hosting customers

[Michael Widenius]

Hi!

>>>>> "David" == David Phillips <david@stripped> writes:

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David> My idea was to have the MySQL connection change the base directory for users
David> on authentication, based on the username.  For example, assume the databases
David> are stored in the following directory:

David> /db

David> When user joe authenticates, MySQL would open databases from the following
David> directory:

David> /db/joe

David> When user sam authenticates, MySQL would use a different directory:

David> /db/sam

This would actually not be that hard to do; Just a couple of days of
work to implement and check this...

We will add this to our TODO for features that people can sponsor us
to do (hint...)

Regards,
Monty

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