Andy Lamb wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm new to bacula and would appreciate some advice on securing mysql with
> bacula. I have installed bacula-3.0.3 on Centos 5.4 with MySQL and all
> seems to be working well. My only concern is how to add password
> protection to the mysql database and not cause any of the bacula scripts
> to stop working. I have very little scripting or mysql experience so I
> hope you can be patient with my questions. I was wondering if anyone knows
> of a simple how to or can provide some steps that I can follow to add
> passwords to both the root and bacula mysql users while still allowing
> bacula to operate.

Bacula 5.0.0 has a new script which removes any issues.  It reads 
bacula-dir.conf to get the connection details.

See:

http://www.bacula.org/manuals/en/install/install/Bacula_Security_Issues.html

and

http://www.bacula.org/manuals/en/catalog/catalog/Catalog_Maintenance.html#SECTION002140000000000000000



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