No, no yu are welcome ;-)

Best regards

Nils Valentin
Tokyo/Japan


2003年 6月 24日 火曜日 02:29、あなたは書きました:
> Ahh thank you for the clarification.   It is most appreciated!
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Chris
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nils Valentin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 5:42 PM
> To: Chris Hutchison; MySQL list
> Subject: Re: my.cnf and passwords
>
>
> Hi Chris,
>
> I believe you are looking in the wrong place. The my.cnf is used to set
> startup options for the mysql server or the mysql clients - refering to the
> client tools that come with the RDBMS.
>
> You want to look into /etc/php.ini
>
> or  the config.inc.php file from phpmyadmin.
>
> Best regards
>
> Nils Valentin
> Tokyo/Japan
>
> 2003年 6月 21日 土曜日 05:36、Chris Hutchison さんは書きました:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I'm pretty new to MySQL, but have managed to create a database that is
> > accessed via PHP which then creates tables from the MySQL data.
> >
> > Currently, I am using the root user/password combo to grab the info
> > (which means the password is plaintext in the PHP).   I wanted to use the
> > my.cnf to define the password, but no matter where I put the file
> > (/etc/my.cnf, /var/lib/mysql/, /var/lib/mysql/[databasename], /root,
> > /home/mysql/.my.cnf) my query won't seem to hit the my.cnf file which has
> > the following in it: (note:  it doesn't have a username defined.)
> >
> > [client]
> > password=mypassword
> >
> > my database is called 'assets' and it's located in:
> > /var/lib/mysql/assets
> >
> > I have a mysql user defined:
> > mysql:x:100:101:MySQL server:/var/lib/mysql:/bin/bash
> >
> > The php stuff is located in a single directory:
> > /var/www/html/assets
> >
> > Yet when I try to access the page (which works when the password is
> > passed in the php), I get:
> >
> > Warning: Access denied for user: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' (Using password: NO) in
> > /var/www/html/assets/fetch-new.php on line 6
> >
> > Warning: MySQL Connection Failed: Access denied for user:
> > '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' (Using password: NO) in
> > /var/www/html/assets/fetch-new.php on line 6
> >
> > fetch-new.php's line 6 (and 7) looks like this:
> >
> > $db = mysql_connect("localhost", "root");
> > mysql_select_db("assets",$db);
> >
> >
> > I've checked out the mysql.com's documentation, and I've tried putting
> > the my.cnf file in every place they reference, but it doesn't seem to
> > work via this PHP.   When I connect from the command line (on the Linux
> > box), it *does* work, so it seems that the /etc/my.cnf file is being
> > checked at that point, but isn't being checked in the php.
> >
> > Does anyone see/know a fix?   I'm out of ideas.
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Chris

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