iptables how to close mysql port 3306

[karlp at ourldsfamily.com]

On Mon, April 3, 2006 4:07 pm, Ted Potter said:
> On 4/3/06, A. Khattri <ajai at bway.net> wrote:
>> On Mon, 3 Apr 2006, Ted Potter wrote:
>>
>> > To make it fun, no I can not install anything. No there is not gui.
>> > Everthing I do must be from
>> > the command line on the box. Bout the only blessing is I can ssh in to
>> the
>> > box as root.
>> >
>> > Thanks for any who care to play and share.
>> >
>> > PS
>> >
>> > I tried the following:
>> >
>> > iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -d 3306 -j REJECT
>> >
>> > then I see
>> >
>> > iptables --list
>> > REJECT tcp -- anywhere 0.0.12.234 reject-wthi icmp-port-unreachable
>> >
>> > and I can still log on to the server remotely.
>>
>> Much easier to edit /etc/my.cnf and tell MySQL to not use networking
>> (skip-networking) or tell it to listen on 127.0.0.1 (bind-address).
>
>
> Thanks for the tip, however I can find no such file on the server. Darn it
> that would of been a sweet fix.

You can add the file. However, you may want to do

locate my.cnf

and see what comes back.

Karl

>
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> Ted
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