[Typo3-dev] Minor Db security idea

"Kasper Skårhøj" kasper at typo3.com
Fri Oct 17 16:29:03 CEST 2003


This could already be done by a conditional statement in localconf.php:

if (TYPO3_MODE=="FE") {
  $typo3_user_name = 'blablabla';
} else {
  $typo3_user_name = 'blablabla_backend';
}


(or something like this)


God bless

- kasper

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On 14-10-2003 at 16:26 Martin Kutschker wrote:

>Hi!
>
>Just a little idea:
>
>Use two instead of one DB user. One would be used for FE users the other
>for BE users. The DB user for FE users should not have write access to all
>tables/columns, it shouldn't have read access to some tables and limited
>rights for Mysql admin tasks.
>
>Of course it's up to the site admin to set the rights, but the installer
>could check against the Db rights and issue warnings.
>
>Perhaps security is enhanced a bit. If it's not too difficult to, it may
>be worth a try.
>
>Masi 
>
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God bless

- kasper


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