Dovecot & Mysql , can you help me ??

Tue Sep 7 20:18:51 UTC 2004

Am Di, den 07.09.2004 schrieb priou um 21:35:

> > > db_user = root
> >
> > That is evil! Never use the MySQL root user for normal database works!
> 
> for why ? mysql is protected under an firewall ? :) 
> and i have no password .... :( 
> I joke ...

It is a bad habit. The root user is _always_ - the system's root and the
mysql's root - just an administrative user account. If you neglect that
fact in assumed uncritical cases, you do it if not all the times but in
more than one case at the wrong place.

> alex

Alexander

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