Subject: Re: Linux security
Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 16:35:44 +0530

"Sameer D. Sahasrabuddhe" wrote:

> How about the MySQL way of doing things? Any system user may login as the
> MySQL root if he has the password. The point is that instead of relying
> /entirely/ on the operating system, the application has its own gatekeeper
> ...

Not safe. If the person has read access to the MySQL data file, he can
easily extract the data from there.

It really works only when security is at the OS level. But that doesn't
protect you from someone taking out your disk and reading straight from
it.

And so on it goes. Security has no boundaries...

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