Comments on: Change the MySQL root user password

By: Peat

Peat — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 07:09:03 +0000

hi just joining and hope i will learn more

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Tue, 06 Sep 2005 08:34:38 +0000

Doug Merritt wrote:

So once again, the good habit to get into is this:
never put a plain text password onto a command
line with any tool in any environment. Never!

I notice you have all of the answers yet never presented an actual solution.
Did you mention using SSH or any other encryption method for the n00bs to research?

By: zaharw

zaharw — Tue, 11 Jan 2005 03:54:31 +0000

he_who_wanders wrote:

Isil`Zha wrote:

khe khe keh

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Sat, 30 Oct 2004 20:09:55 +0000

I have a question then … what do you do about an sh script that your using for a Cron job? I used the “Daily database dumps, all nicely sorted” recipe and it has the userName/password hardcoded in the .sh file. I have CHOWN’d it to 700, but I am wondering — is there a better way to secure the username and password?

By: help

help — Fri, 22 Oct 2004 13:55:33 +0000

wait we r supposed to open mysqladmin in bin rgiht?? cuz wen i try to open dat it opens then quickly closes up i dont know what to do

By: dklanac

dklanac — Fri, 03 Sep 2004 09:18:38 +0000

BTW, here’s my email address: dklanac@yahoo.com

Thanks.

By: dklanac

dklanac — Fri, 03 Sep 2004 09:17:31 +0000

I’m still figuring out user account security for MySQL 4.0 and am sort of worried about the root user password reset functionality. At face value, it seems like it could be an easy way for someone to gain access to my databases by just resetting the password. I made sure to create my own secure login and password and deleted the root user completely from the users table and flushed all privileges, but the reset procedure that allows you to load the database in a “safe mode” without grant restrictions seems like a big hole to me. Does anyone have anything to offer up to the newbie?

Thanks,
David

By: he_who_wanders

he_who_wanders — Tue, 20 Jul 2004 10:11:45 +0000

Isil`Zha wrote:

No he exactly meant what he said ;)
Maybe you should start informing urself prior to posting nonsense like that. :roll:

Doesn’t appear to be nonsense to me. The original poster said chown 700.
In every box I know of that would leave the file permissions alone and make
the new owner of the file whoever happened to be UID 700. chmod 700
makes much more sense given the context.

By: Isil`Zha

Isil`Zha — Mon, 19 Jul 2004 04:23:48 +0000

No he exactly meant what he said ;)
Maybe you should start informing urself prior to posting nonsense like that. :roll:

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 25 May 2004 13:19:12 +0000

maybe you mean chmod the file to 700, foo