I installed lampserver and took measures to see that apache would only serve 127.0.0.1 (Which appears to be a software switch as ipconfig says it's port is still "Open")
Mysql however, could be vulnerable: Do I need to secure it or does it only serve localhost? If so, how do I secure it?
My laptop is beginning to show its age so it may be time for a new PC soon, and most likely it'll come with Windows 7 preloaded. I currently run a dual boot with Lucid and Windows XP, and although I hardly use XP anymore I would repeat this configuration on the new PC. So now I'm wondering if Windows 7 is any less vulnerable to viruses and malware than its earlier predecessors because I don't plan to renew any virus checking software that may come with it.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI've heard of attacks using PDF files on Windows with Adobe Acrobat and Foxit Reader. Is Linux vulnerable to these attacks when using the default PDF viewers in KDE or Gnome or even xpdf? What is a good PDF scanner to determine if a PDF file is evil?
View 2 Replies View RelatedMysql is installed and I have checked it on three places to make sure it is. I tried to start the service or start mysql but no luck I can't find it anywhere and I cannot get it to run. It is also not under /etc/init.d
View 9 Replies View RelatedIs Linux vulnerable to Java drive-by exploits? Another computer I run on windows 7 just notified me that it was infected through Java, and I'm wondering if my Linux box (ubuntu 10) with Java installed is vulnerable.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have been reading about this new Firefox extension that can grab Twitter account information of computers connected to unprotected networks. Info: url
I occasionally have to connect to public, unprotected, WiFi networks and use Twitter via Gwibber. So, here is my question: is Gwibber vulnerable to Firesheep in an unprotected network? Is there a way of protecting it from this attacks? (I know that using https stops Firesheep attacks to the web version of Gwibber, but i don't think if this method is possible or applicable to Gwibber)
In the wake of all of the stories about the Windows DLL hijacking bug, it appears that certain Linux distributions may be vulnerable to a similar problem related to the way that Linux handles a specific variable in some cases. The bug apparently was introduced via a Debian patch last year.The discussion on the possible bug in Linux began with a blog post by Tim Brown, a UK-based security researcher, who detailed a specific case in which Linux could be vulnerable to an attack similar to those designed to exploit the Windows DLL bug. The post spawned a related discussion on the Full-Disclosure mailing list, in which several others confirmed that they'd seen the problematic behavior in certain Linux distributions, including Fedora, Ubuntu and Debian.
View 1 Replies View Relatedlong time user of redhat, first time user of fedora...
Installed fedora 10 to the hard drive (building a new web server, switched from RHEL5)
Started to install everything I need, apache, php, mysql, odbc, iseries access for linux, etc...
Got to the php modules, installed php-odbc, php-mysql, etc... but php doesn't see the mysql module
doing a phpinfo() produces -without-mysql
uninstalled it, reinstalled it (this is all done through kpackagekit so far) - no good
uninstalled and tried to reinstall via yum, no good
all the config files are fine - copied my php.ini from the old server and let the installs create the new mysql ini files
how to get it in ? this is my last step before i can begin pen and vulnerability testing it.
I am marking this solved because I believe it is posted in the wrong forum. I will repost in Software. Sorry for the mistake. I have a small website that I want to host from home. I'm able to access it through the public IP but have not been successful in setting up the zones in PowerDns using PowerAdmin to resolve the domain name. I have read several sites regarding the issue but I still have no success. I'm hoping someone may be able to help with editing my master zone in order to resolve the domain name. I am using CentOS 5.5 to host the site and I've installed mysql as the backend to PowerDNS.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI'm rather new to linux and I am trying to set up two linux servers to do MySQL replication. I believe to do this you need to have a file called my.cnf in /etc/ but this file isn't there I have tried un-installing and installing MySQL many times but this file still doesn't appear.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have spent over half of the day, literally, trying to get my server to parse perl and be able to use perl scripts to interact with my SQL server. Has anyone been able to get it to work? Only looking for answers to Slackware. There are a lot of resources for FC and Ubuntu, but that does me no good. I checked the Slackbuilds for their builds, and built the libdbi and libdbi-drivers package, but still cannot get it to communicate.
View 1 Replies View Relatedit seems i have successfully installed LAMP.. i have a very basic page below that works when invoking "data()" but when i try to connect to mysql server (by removing the comments "//") it would just return a blank page.
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I have just installed joomla and proceeded to do the web install. Got the interface up and running and its now complaining it does not see the mysql server running. I do in fact have it running. Veryfied it with mysql command on command line and it complained with missing attributes.
I read a thread that it needs php-mysql installed. So went to proceed to install it. Well, I did not have that and went to install it. Verified it. Package mysql-server-5.0.77-3.el5.i386 already installed and latest version
I then did a service mysql reset.
Checked back at the joomla web install interface and still, it says there is no mysql support! What is next? Im running centos OS. Also, I am running LAMP
I am trying to locate the path for MySQL installed trough LAMP. if someone could point it for me or how to locate this path.
View 1 Replies View Relatedi am trying to set up LAMP on an old pc i have installed linux, apache, mySQL and PHP following this guide Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On OpenSUSE 11.3 (LAMP) | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials. i have installed phpMyAdmin but when i try and acess it i get this error
Error
MySQL said:
Cannot connect: invalid settings.
phpMyAdmin tried to connect to the MySQL server, and the server rejected the connection. You should check the host, username and password in your configuration and make sure that they correspond to the information given by the administrator of the MySQL server.
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Been working with this problem for over a week now and has come to a dead end, I have installed pureFTPD with MySQL on Debian 5 Lenny 64bit. My problem is I can't login with the users in the sql-database, but for some strange reason, I'm allowed to loggin as anonymous. Unix users can't login either.
I have followed the guide on: [URL]..
- Created a ftpgroup and ftpuser.
- Created a database ftpd
- Created a user vhosts and given access to ftpd db
My configurations files
/etc/pure-ftpd/auth/30mysql
Code:
/etc/pure-ftpd/db/mysql.conf
/etc/pure-ftpd/db/mysql.conf
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CentOS using yum to update Exim. Exim is configured to not allow remote connections using the local_interfaces config option.My old version was 4.63-5.el5_5.2 and after using:
yum update exim
I think this goes here, but I'm not sure. I decided that XAMPP had been troublesome enough. MySQL never worked. So I decided to instal the LAMP stack offered by YaST. I went about installing it thinking that it would all work. But it seems that I was wrong. So I try to start mysql, and here's what I get:
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the-matrix:~ # mysql start
ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/mysql/mysql.sock' (2) or
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the-matrix:~ # rcmysql start
Starting service MySQL warning: /var/mysql/mysql.sock didn't appear within 30 seconds
chmod: cannot access `/var/run/mysql/mysqld.pid': No such file or directory
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I'd like to set up a fileserver for myself and a few trusted individuals. I'm computer savvy and I use various linux servers frequently for work, but this is my first time trying to setup my own. Is it possible to have a Samba server setup so it is both secure and facing the Internet? Two questions:
Will opening Samba ports make my default Ubuntu server particularly vulnerable to penetration? More than having an SSH server running? Does Samba/ can Samba be configured to encrypt traffic or is it sent plainly? If so, does Windows and Mac support this secure communication?
If not, what would you suggest? I'd like to achieve something like a network drive and at a difficulty level that my parents could use this if they really wanted to. I will be storing things like financial information and tax returns, but no weapons-grade secrets.
i am using liferay5.2(mysql included in the download pack) on fedora. while liferay is working fine but i cannot connect to mysql.i am getting the error
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[root@localhost ~]# ln -s /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock /tmp
[root@localhost ~]# /etc/init.d/mysqld start
Timeout error occurred trying to start MySQL Daemon.
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i didnt find the mysql.sock file in the location /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock. i cannot find the portal-ext.properties file also to make intial settings.
I used Avast webfilter (proxied webtraffic through Avast) when running Windows. Sometimes Avast would alert and "protect" me from being infected by a compromised website. NOTE: Avast would alert even absent clicking any links. Just viewing the page could result in infection. Should I be running some kind of proxy webfilter for protection? My understanding is that Firefox can be compromised and this can in turn compromise Ubuntu.Are these kinds of threats specific to Windows running Firefox, or Firefox per se. If Firefox per se it seems like I need some sort of Proxy webfiltering like Avast provides.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI'm just curious as to what security measure's I should be taking to make my box a little less vulnerable? I'm still experimenting/playing with Linux, use the net, IM, download this and that and was wondering how secure fedora 10 was out of the box?
View 12 Replies View RelatedI have a RHEL5 machine having mysql5.0.22 is installed in it. i also installed java through "jdk-1_5_0_19-linux-i586.bin" package, and its version is 1.5.0_19. I am trying to check if any JDBC driver for Mysql Server is installed on my system . How can I do this? If any driver is already installed How can I get the file path for those driver files? is it comes along with jdk packages? As i am not a programmer, and does't know more about jdbc.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have installed Mysql in Ubuntu 9, for the use of roundcube database.After installing iam getting the error like this
* Stopping MySQL database server mysqld [ OK ]
* Starting MySQL database server mysqld [ OK ]
* Checking for corrupt, not cleanly closed and upgrade needing tables.
So because of this in the roundcube configuration its giving the error message that MYSQL is not installed. So Kindly give me a idea how to solve this.
i was trying to allow remote access to mysql by following mysql was running perfectly until i got here :
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/sbin/iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -s 192.168.1.0/24 -p tcp --destination-port 3306 -j ACCEPT
i changed my.cnf bind-address line to : "bind-address = 127.0.0.1" and nothing
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getting foll error during 'make' part of compilation of mysql v5.5.6rc
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libtool: link: unsupported hardcode properties
libtool: link: See the libtool documentation for more information.
libtool: link: Fatal configuration error.
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I was having issues with MySQL Server and uninstalled it. I still have my databases at /lib/var/mysql.
My question: if I install MySQL Server (same version, 5.1) again, will it delete my databases, or will they still work?
How can I really, really remove everything related to mysql / mysql-server. I read and tried all kinds of things, but on every reinstall there is still old mysql stuff there, for example an existing password. Even resetting the password does not help.
Reason of removal: it looks like the mysql setup is really corrupt, so I want to remove, and then do a fresh install. Running Ubuntu 11.04 64-bit
sander@R540:~$ sudo apt-get purge mysql-server
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package mysql-server is not installed,
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I'm having problems connecting to the mysql database on my system. I first noticed this when I was trying to set up the program anymeal. I subsequently tried using MySQL Administrator (mysql-admin), but had no luck. It gives my the following feedback:
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Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)
Click the 'Ping' button to see if there is a networking problem. I press the ping button, and it seems to connect.
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I've downloaded and installed MySQL-client-5.1.53-1.glibc23.x86_64.rpm. I'm rather new to linux so it might be I haven't started the server. Unfortunately I have no idea which file is responsible for that. It is also possible that my head isn't functioning correctly ( if at all ).
Error I receive is:
ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2)