From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 17 11:43:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from alpha.root-servers.ch (alpha.root-servers.ch [195.49.62.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 20BF937B766 for ; Sat, 17 Jun 2000 11:43:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch) Received: (qmail 1310 invoked from network); 17 Jun 2000 18:43:03 -0000 Received: from client99-59.hispeed.ch (62.2.99.59) by ns1.root-servers.ch with SMTP; 17 Jun 2000 18:43:03 -0000 Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 20:43:09 +0200 From: Gabriel Ambuehl X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.44) UNREG / CD5BF9353B3B7091 Organization: BUZ Internet Services X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <7826811372.20000617204309@buz.ch> To: Ryan Thompson Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Securing Perl::DBI connections In-reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello Ryan, Saturday, June 17, 2000, 8:31:29 PM, you wrote: > Any ideas on how I could ensure that only a few of my programs can have > access to a mySQL database, without putting the password clear-text for > anyone with a shell account to see? chrooted shell accounts so the users can only see the data that belongs to them? If I'd allow my users to have shell accounts, I'd do it that way (or I'd perhaps use jail). Best regards, Gabriel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message