Debian Postfix backports and SASL2

Markus Welsch markus.welsch at suk.net
Tue Apr 29 10:15:02 EDT 2003


 > True.  However I don't run mysql chrooted.

I run every single service chrooted since I'm kind of paranoid when it 
comes to security :-). MySQL is running on another host anyways in my case.

 > But aren't TCP connects slower than socket connects?  That's the
 > reason why I always use sockets.

True, about 10%

 > The default in Debian is to start mysqld with --skip-networking.  If
 > I'd disable this, I'd set bind=127.0.0.1 and try to do TCP connects to
 > the loopback device so that connects from the outside are not
 > possible.

Oh sorry. I meant that. Should have double checked :-)





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