[imp] mysql port 3306

[Rick Romero]

I was just looking for that here's the link to the command line 
option:
http://www.mysql.com/documentation/mysql/commented/manual.p
hp?section=Command-line_options

--bind-address=IP

On 21 Nov 2000, at 16:28, Anil Madhavapeddy wrote:

> Mark Orenstein wrote:
> > 
> > I'm running sendmail/imap/horde/imp/mysql on one PC.  I'm looking to secure
> > this PC as much as I can.  Via a netstat -anp, I've noticed that mysql is
> > listening on port 3306.  Is it possible to use ipchains to only allow
> > localhost source address access to this port?
> > 
> 
> Just bind the MySQL process to listen only on the 127.0.0.1 (localhost)
> address, so it won't be seen from the outside world.  Or a domain socket
> only (I believe it has some special behaviour for localhost anyhows).
> 
> You shouldn't really need to mess with ipchains (I assume you are
> running Linux).
> 
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Rick Romero
IT Manager
Valeo, Inc.
rick@valeoinc.com
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