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Restricting RDBMS network access

Restricting RDBMS network access

Posted Apr 5, 2013 17:05 UTC (Fri) by butlerm (subscriber, #13312)
In reply to: Restricting RDBMS network access by tialaramex
Parent article: A serious PostgreSQL security fix

> Except it seems the Java MySQL connector doesn't _do_ Unix sockets, so they have to talk TCP/IP anyway

That really isn't MySQL's fault. Java doesn't support Unix sockets, and they don't want to, on portability grounds. Several years back they removed support for reading environment variables for the same reason. It is a least common denominator thing.


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