Misbehaving mysql57-server

Dave Horsfall dave at horsfall.org
Mon Mar 30 02:56:56 UTC 2020


On Sun, 29 Mar 2020, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> My understanding is that placing the mysql socket in /tmp is insecure, 
> which is why that has not been what MacPorts does for many, many years, 
> and why the above change should not be made.

Putting critical files into a world-writable directory is generally a bad 
idea at the best of times.

-- Dave


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