Re: mysql: MySQL Security

[monty () ANALYTIK ANALYTIKERNA SE (Michael Widenius)]

> > > > > "Ben" == Ben Laurie <ben () algroup co uk> writes:

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Ben> b) if you've set the port <1024, so it gets filtered naturally by your
Ben> firewall, you have to run as root. The following patch fixes this
Ben> problem (on FreeBSD at least), if you add "MYSQL_USER=someuser; export
Ben> MYSQL_USER" to safe_mysqld.

Ben> Only lightly tested...

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Thanks for the patch!  I have added this to MySQL 3.22, with the small
change that one should use mysqld --user=someuser instead of a
environment variable.

Yours,
Monty