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Chapter 10. Security

Keeping
MySQL secure is critical to maintaining the integrity and privacy of
your data. Just as you have to protect Unix or Windows login
accounts, you need to ensure that MySQL accounts have good passwords
and only the privileges they need. Because MySQL is often used on a
network, you also need to consider the security of the host that runs
MySQL, who has access to it, and what someone could learn by sniffing
traffic on your network.

In this chapter we'll look at how
MySQL's permissions work and how you can keep
control of who has access to the data. We'll also
consider some of the basic operating system and network security
measures you can employ to keep the bad guys out of your databases.
Finally, we'll discuss encryption and running MySQL
in a highly restricted environment.