[Bug 419400] Re: [Karmic] MySQL security problem

[Mathias Gug]

On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 06:48:56PM -0000, seasoned_geek wrote:
> I have fixed this problem on my own, but it points to a deeper issue.
> 
> You have to edit an apparmor config file, then reboot.  Given the
> current shutdown problems with Karmic, that is an issue.  Where is the
> GUI for AppArmor?  OpenSuSE has one, why doesn't KUbuntu?
> 
> sudo scite /etc/apparmor.d/usr.sbin.mysqld
> 
> If you don't have SciTE installed, you probably should since it is a
> very good text editor and doesn't have much baggage.
>

This isn't not issue related to the mysql-server-5.1 package.

> At the very end of the file, before the closing brace, you need to add a
> line (or lines) which give mysql access to the directory trees you want
> to use.
> 
>   /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock w,
>   /home/roland/** rwk,
> }
> 

As you've find out you need to update the apparmor profile of mysqld as
you're not using the default mysql data directory (/var/lib/mysql).

  status wontfix

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Mathias Gug
Ubuntu Developer  http://www.ubuntu.com


** Changed in: mysql-dfsg-5.1 (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Won't Fix

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[Karmic] MySQL security problem
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