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Special Forums Cybersecurity Open Port 3306 for MySQL connection Post 19557 by PxT on Friday 12th of April 2002 01:58:25 PM
Old 04-12-2002
If you are using iptables you would do something like:

iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 3306 -j ACCEPT


Put it into your firewall config file. Not sure on the mandrake specifics. On redhat it is in /etc/sysconfig/
 

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MYSQL_SECURE_INST(1)					       MySQL Database System					      MYSQL_SECURE_INST(1)

NAME
mysql_secure_installation - improve MySQL installation security SYNOPSIS
mysql_secure_installation DESCRIPTION
This program enables you to improve the security of your MySQL installation in the following ways: o You can set a password for root accounts. o You can remove root accounts that are accessible from outside the local host. o You can remove anonymous-user accounts. o You can remove the test database, which by default can be accessed by anonymous users. Invoke mysql_secure_installation without arguments: shell> mysql_secure_installation The script will prompt you to determine which actions to perform. COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2007-2008 MySQL AB, 2008-2010 Sun Microsystems, Inc. This documentation is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it only under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; version 2 of the License. This documentation is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with the program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA or see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/. SEE ALSO
For more information, please refer to the MySQL Reference Manual, which may already be installed locally and which is also available online at http://dev.mysql.com/doc/. AUTHOR
Sun Microsystems, Inc. (http://www.mysql.com/). MySQL 5.1 04/06/2010 MYSQL_SECURE_INST(1)
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