On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 12:24, Zeev Suraski wrote:

> I think that most database setups in general don't keep their information 
> encrypted, and the reasons they use username/password pairs is mainly 
> because (a) they're designed to serve multiple users (at the OS level) on 
> the same machine, and (b) they're designed to be accessed over the network.

Indeed - if I were to copy a bunch of mysql data files out from
$random_server and pop them in my own mysql server, I'd still be able to
read the data.

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