Tagged Questions

0
votes
0answers
11 views

Vote to a db server using session key

I do not know if this is the right stackexchange site to ask this question, but I believe that is relevant. I am trying to implement an e-voting protocol. At some point the protocol says that server 1 ...
0
votes
2answers
52 views

Error log - What does this mean and what can I do about it?

I have the following repeated errors in my error.log and I don't know what it means or what I should/can do about it: Access denied for user 'root'@'[some IP]' (using password: YES) There are ...
2
votes
2answers
73 views

Logging only mySQL logins on heavily used system

I have an audit requirement where they want all database access (logins) logged. We have a very large distributed system of hundreds of mySQL servers (shards, slaves, slaves of slaves) that are ...
9
votes
3answers
5k views

Access denied for user 'root'@'%'

I used to access the root user in MySQL just fine. But recently, I am no longer able to. I am able to login fine : mysql -u root -p Here is the mysql status after login : mysql> status ...
1
vote
1answer
337 views

Issue with connecting to the mysql database

We have an outstanding issue with VCC in chicago, there is an issue connecting to the mysql database If an agent does a refresh of the monitor they will be logged out. This is the error we ...
1
vote
2answers
386 views

MySQL 5.5 accepts password but then closes connection

Apologies in advance for lack of information. I have installed MySQL 5.5 x64 on a Windows XP Professional x64 development machine. Today, upon trying to connect with any tool(MySQL workbench, PHP ...
1
vote
1answer
538 views

Error in login in with root user in new mysql server

I've installed a MySQL server in CentOS 6.2 machine +-------------------------+---------------------+ | Variable_name | Value | ...
2
votes
1answer
84 views

Why does OS login not exist in the user table, but I can still login to MySQL?

mysql> select user, password, host from user; +------+----------+---------------------------------------------+ | user | password | host | ...
1
vote
1answer
84 views

mysqladmin user account not secure?

I still playing with my own DB trying to learn and saw this: I could change the root password without any problem at all... If I'm in the server I can create an algorithm to start testing password ...
1
vote
2answers
419 views

Secure method beside phpMyAdmin for remote mysql

Recently, one of my centos linux servers was hacked and the cause of due to phpMyAdmin. It was said due to this problem PhpMyAdmin vulnerability CVE-2011-2505 ...
4
votes
2answers
8k views

Grant table privileges to a user connecting from any host

I have a user account - let's call it 'wordpress' - that I need to allow to access a few catalog tables in another e-commerce database on the same server. I've configured the user with three host ...
1
vote
2answers
394 views

Mysql master-master permission replication issue

I came to know it's safe to replicate mysql database to have the users and permissions replicated, from a post in ServerFault is-it-ok-to-replicate-mysql-db. I have setup master-master replication ...
6
votes
3answers
14k views

MySQL error: Access denied for user 'a'@'localhost' (using password: YES)

I use the root account created the account 'a'@'%'. But I can't use the it to connect to MySQL server when I specify the host parameter. I can successfully connect without the -h parameter. Please see ...
7
votes
4answers
468 views

Is splitting a 'users' table for authentication purposes a good idea?

Suppose I have a user table in my site in which there are around 2-3 Million users (records) in the table. For speeding up my login process, is it a good approach to split my user table, one for ...
1
vote
1answer
79 views

mysql server password change while restoring

I restored all database backup from another server's dumpfile to my machine. At the end my mysql server's password changed to that mysql server's password. Why it got overwritten? What i need to do to ...
8
votes
3answers
3k views

Audit logins on MySQL database

Is there a way to audit logins to MySQL? I'd like to be able to create a username for each employee and thereby create an audit trail of logins. However, googling has turned up no good results. The ...
2
votes
2answers
371 views

Transferring concepts - users/groups/permissions of db objects from mysql to postgresql

This seemed like a better fit here than stackoverflow, so here goes: I've been using mysql for a while since on most of the cheap webhosts it is the provided database. However, now I've started ...
8
votes
3answers
1k views

MySQL LDAP authentication

Is LDAP authentication and authorization in MySQL possible? What are the requirements (MySQL version, third-party software etc.)? How it's organized? Thanks.