Hi Faisal
Not if you give "nobody" only the right to connect from localhost.
Tschau
Christian
Faisal Nasim wrote:
>
> If I add "nobody" anybody (hacker I mean) can connect to my local sql
> server and can damange much things.
>
> Password protection? It just wouldn't work! (I am on Win32)
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> >> I have a little problem, on my Linux Redhat 5.1, I can use mysql,
> >> mysqladmin etc. I can also append, read etc values via a Perl
> >> script (via telnet), but when I call the same script from the web,
> >> it doesn't work. I think it is running as NOBODY and mysql won't
> >> permit nobody to write into the database!
> >
> >Sure it will. Just add the appropriate permissions for "nobody" to the
> >database. Works fine here.
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