[Gambas-devel] Gambas Database Manager - Access Denied

[Ken Schrock]

I disagree with his disagreement : -)

Anybody that wants to use Gambas should know RDBMS? Why?

I would like a lot of people to use Linux
Do any of these corporate types have any idea
How VERY difficult it is for "average" or "home" users
To work around all the damn security built into most Linux distros?

If you use Linux or Gambas in an environment where security is important
Then you are probably getting paid for it, and should know what you are 
doing
And should be able to handle the security issues that such an 
environment entails

Should Joe Blow, who wants to make a small app at home using Gambas
Know all about RDBMS and climb over a mountain of security to do it? NO.

Yes, Benoit, I would like such a thing, I think most "normal" users would

If corp users want a big security version of Gambas, sell them one : -)


Philip A. Chapman wrote:

>Benoit,
>
>I believe that this is a bad idea for two reasons.  The first is that it
>could open up security issues.  The second is that developers should
>know at least the basics of how an RDBMS they are connecting to works.
>
>I can understand that you would like for gambas to hide as many of the
>mundane stuff as possible, but there is no excuse for a developer not
>understanding how the RDBMS that his application is using works;
>especially security.
>
>Do everything that you can to create good prompts and error messages
>when you cannot connect to a database.  Even provide ample
>documentation.  However, I think installing an all powerful user is a
>back door style exploit waiting to happen.
>
>Thanks,
>
>On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 12:07, Benoit Minisini wrote:
>  
>
>>Le Mardi 3 Juin 2003 12:32, Nigel GERRARD a écrit :
>>    
>>
>>>Few weeks or even months !:-) ago there was a thread discussing a problem
>>>with mysql connects.  A message similar to 'Cannot open database: Access
>>>denied for user '????@localhost' (Using password: NO..or YES)' occurs
>>>within the Database Manager.  I am not sure whether this got resolved
>>>properly since searching the sourceforge.net archives doesn't appear to
>>>work, but is due to the mysql driver defaulting to database 'mysql' and the
>>>connecting user not having the privileges to connect to it.
>>>
>>>I would suggest that the GDM should produce a warning message for the user
>>>to check that the connection user has been granted access to database
>>>'mysql'.
>>>      
>>>
>>Hi, Nigel
>>
>>Could it be possible to write a little script to initialize a mysql database 
>>server (I will the postgresql one) so that a default connection to the server 
>>works every time ?
>>
>>For example, it will create a 'gambas' user with all access, and this user 
>>will be used by the driver.
>>
>>Do you think it is a good idea, or do you think it's better to let the root 
>>user doing that ?
>>    
>>

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