Insecurity by default (was: MySQL Help)

[Robert Brockway]

On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, Stephen wrote:

> Hmmm... how often is a database server never accessed across a network? I 
> just don't see that many database administrators going into the server room 
> to do their work.

There is a middle ground here.  When I want to access a DB I typically ssh 
to the server and access the DB over localhost using mysql or psql.  A lot 
of DB servers I use/manage are not listening on any network interface 
except lo but I certainly don't need to physically visit them to access 
the DB.

Cheers,

Rob

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