Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 14:50:26 +0100 From: Tom Evans <tevans.uk@googlemail.com> To: Duane Hill <d.hill@yournetplus.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: accessing mysql server remotely Message-ID: <1184075426.1228.12.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20070710121422.S27505@duane.dbq.yournetplus.com> References: <NBECLJEKGLBKHHFFANMBOELGCEAA.fbsd@a1poweruser.com> <20070710115624.K27424@duane.dbq.yournetplus.com> <20070710121422.S27505@duane.dbq.yournetplus.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 12:15 +0000, Duane Hill wrote: > On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 at 12:01 -0000, d.hill@yournetplus.com confabulated: > > > On Mon, 9 Jul 2007 at 23:33 -0400, fbsd@a1poweruser.com confabulated: > > > >> Just a general question about mysql remote access. > >> > >> Is it possible to login to my remote mysql server and create a > >> new db & table using a file on the local system which contains > >> the definition statements? > > > > Sure. As long as the account name used to login to MySQL has login access > > from the remote location. > > > > mysql -host=ip_or_hostname -user=username -password=password dbname < > > statements.sql > > My bad. The command line parameters should have two hyphens: > > mysql --host=ip_or_hostname --user=username --password=password dbname < statements.sql > Whilst this syntax will work fine, it requires that the mysql server allow remote logins - well I already have a nice cryptographically secure way of allowing remote access, it's called SSH: cat statements.sql |\ ssh -C user@hostname 'mysql -u<user> -p<pass> <dbname>' The main benefit of this is that my mysql server now only needs to run on localhost, and so cannot be touched by any external user. For an interactive mysql prompt, you'd need either to open up mysql, or forward a port: ssh -C -L13306:localhost:3306 user@hostname mysql -u<user> -p<pass> -hlocalhost -P13306 <dbname> [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBGk46ilcRvFfyds/cRAsgrAJ0Xld2Tyam5Cu23rZyclaOSoujEiQCgkv/C vUupMrJHvtJP1EUqwmbctsU= =pqjh -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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