[Gllug] [OT] MySQL experts?

[Paul Brazier]

> +-------------------+-----------+------------------+
> | Host              | User      | Password         |
> +-------------------+-----------+------------------+
> | localhost         | root      | 375793302c0bf*** |
> | eagle.admin.local | root      |                  |
> | localhost         |           |                  |
> | eagle.admin.local |           |                  |
> | %                 | admin     | 675bd1463e544*** |
> | %                 | superuser | 7e82afb618ffe*** |
> | %                 | user      | 66dfb2963aff0*** |
> +-------------------+-----------+------------------+
> 
> (I'm taking no chances on anyone running crack on
> these passwords!)

I think you can actually connect to a MySQL database even if you only
know the encrypted form of the passwords i.e. without having to reverse
the password encryption.
So only 16^3 possibilities to try? ;)

Paul.

disclaimer: I might be wrong on this point.


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