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Re: Walking around amsterdam

Author:Joshua D. Boyd
Posted:5/16/2000; 9:11:18 AM
Topic:Walking around amsterdam
Msg #:17342 (In response to 17332)
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Eric Soroos: MySql was running as root.

For God's good sake! Anyone running a publicly-available service as root deserves what they get.

Uhm, I don't think that MySQL is considered a publicly available service. After all, they didn't attack MySQL directly, they had to go through several layers to get there.

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