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Securing Your MySQL Installation: Best Practices for Protecting Data

Calendar Apr 05, 2006 • User Avatar Anthony Pell
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A MySQL installation should be made as secure as possible to protect databases and other information maintained by the MySQL server from unauthorized access. This article describes potential problem areas about which you should be concerned as a MySQL administrator, and provides guidelines for dealing with them. The issues covered here fall into the following broad categories, which include both local and remote exploits.

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