Re: Horde webmail: mysql access

["Christopher T. Beers" <ctbeers () syr edu>]

--On Sunday, April 25, 2004 11:11 PM +0200 sig () flaming tolna net wrote:

| Hello
| ....
| By default, You can access to these database servers, with the username:
| "horde" and with no password, from a remote host.  Then you will have
| permission to list the databases, and to use some of them. In fact,
| "horde" and "test" databases are available for reading, and  writing, in
| many cases.
|
| ....

If you read the horde_src/docs/INSTALL file there is a section when you 
configure it that says

  Be sure to change the default password, "horde", to something
  else before creating the tables! (Remember to use this password
  when you configure Horde in the next step.)

Also the script that creates the mysql database located at 
horde_src/scripts/db/mysql_create.sql has the following items.  Again a 
warning about changing the password...

USE mysql;

REPLACE INTO user (host, user, password)
   VALUES (
       'localhost',
       'horde',
 -- IMPORTANT: Change this password!
       PASSWORD('horde')
   );

Obviously, this was overlooked in whatever installation you were looking 
at.  In fact, it looks like your administrator removed the default horde 
password and replaced it with nothing...even worse than using the default 
password.

--
Christopher T. Beers    
UNIX Systems Engineer - Syracuse University
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