[olug] protecting MySQL password on multi-user system

[Eric P]

Phil Brammer wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 06:48:10PM -0500, Eric P wrote:
> 
>>It looks like apache is being run under the user name 'noname'.  Does that make sense?
> 
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> Yes.
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>>However, it won't let me chgrp or chown to 'noname'
>>$ chown noname file.php
>>chown: changing ownership of `testing': Operation not permitted
> 
> 
> Umm...  What did you change in the above text?  You are chown'ing file.php, but the error message references a filename of "testing."  Make sure you are root.

Opps... I changed 'testing' to 'file.php' just for the email.

As I said in the beginning of this thread, it's a multi-user Linux system, so I don't have root perms.

Erci