[Gambas-devel] Gambas Database Manager - Access Denied

[Benoit Minisini]

Le Mardi 3 Juin 2003 21:47, Rob a écrit :
> On Tuesday 03 June 2003 18:43, Ken Schrock wrote:
> > 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.
>
> I think a good compromise here would be for someone to write an embedded
> MySQL module, that is, use the embedded capabilities that are supposed to
> be in MySQL 4 (see http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Nutshell_Embedded_MySQL.html

Hey ! I didn't aware of its existence ! Great thing :-)

> ) to make a Gambas component that provides SQL access against local
> MySQL files rather than needing a database, security, and all that stuff.
> That way, the model that novice VB programmers are used to (just create an
> MDB and open it in VB) is still available if it's needed, but the more
> secure server-oriented database options aren't compromised as you propose.
>
> Besides, if such a script (to automatically create a super gambas user
> without saying anything) were included, the various distributions would
> doubtless lock down MySQL/Postgres even more than they already do so that
> this would be impossible for a non-root user in the first place.  Making an
> embedded mySQL module to give the DBMS-novice Gambas user a playground
> seems a reasonable alternative as well as being closer to the Access-style
> DBMS manipulation they're used to.
>
> Not that I'm volunteering ;)
>
> Rob
>
>
>
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