MySQL Security Risk?

From: Neil (futuritymmx_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 08/23/04


Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 21:00:44 GMT

Hi All,

I'd like to install MySQL and PHP onto my server that's hosted in a POP on
the internet. No i have no firewall on tha machine, but i only have the
SSH, FTP (chrooted, no real users) and APACHE services running. I trust
these services (rightly or wrongly).

Now MySQL has been around for ages and i was wondering if it is secure
enough to run on an open server? I understand that you can limit access to
users at specific IP addresses, but is this service still vunerable to
attack?

I'd greatly appreciate your views.

Neil



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