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security issue - using notepad can open mysql user table
Posted by: Paul Barnes
Date: March 30, 2005 07:19AM

Hi everyone - still new to mysql and this is my first post. i am using mysql on windows xp home machine, and i've noticed that i can open the mysql user table in notepad and although there is a lot of garbage text in it, the username and encrypted password are clearly within the garbage text. have i done something wrong in my admin/install, or is this the way it is supposed to work? Thanks.

paul

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