On Sunday 17 February 2008 05:13:21 Kumar Appaiah wrote: > tags 466146 pending > thanks > > Hi! > > A package is ready for upload at mentors. Thanks for the report. If, > after consulting my sponsor and some security people, I find that it > is OK, it shall be uploaded.
Kumar, Can I suggest that a password is set (perhaps take a look at the Debian MySQL server package which does something similar for the debian-sys-maint in the /etc/mysql/debian.cnf file). Limiting access to local hosts is an improvement, but as noted it does not guard against local privilege escalation attacks. Tim -- Tim Brown <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.nth-dimension.org.uk/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]