From: Michael Dykman Date: November 29 2010 7:03pm Subject: Re: Verifying security List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/223680 Message-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable without flags to tell it otherwise, nmap only scan ports 1-1024, higher numbered ports would have to be specified via nmap -p 1-5000 but see how much longer it takes. - michael dykman On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 9:02 AM, Grant wrote: > I've got a couple security questions for you guys. > > Is there a way to verify I've set a password for mysql's root? > > I was previously running mysqld without --skip-networking until I > noticed port: 3306 was referenced in mysqld.err. =A0The strange thing is > 'nmap localhost' never found an open 3306 port and I wasn't running a > firewall on that system. =A0Does this behavior make sense to anyone? > > - Grant > > -- > MySQL General Mailing List > For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql > To unsubscribe: =A0 =A0http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=3Dmdykman@gmail= .com > > --=20 =A0- michael dykman =A0- mdykman@stripped =A0May the Source be with you.