USN-4651-1 mysql-8.0 vulnerabilities

Tom Reynolds discovered that due to a packaging error, the MySQL X Plugin was listening to all network interfaces by default, contrary to expectations. This update changes the default MySQL configuration to bind the MySQL X Plugin to localhost only. This change may impact environments where the...

MySQL user can be changed to root

Hi. I tried this on my own MySQL 3.23.55 !!! I found out that logging as the root user, we can change mysqld to run as root instead that i.e. mysql but this works only if there's just one my.cnf file and it is locate in /etc... Here's how I did it... I logged in as root and than I did this:...