From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050416 Fedora/1.0.3-1.3.1 Firefox/1.0.3 Description of problem: Mysqlhotcopy allows any user to view valid login names and password for a MySQL database Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): mysql-3.23.58-16.FC3.1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. run mysqlhotcopy on a large database 2. on another terminal run "ps -ef" 3. view an unencrypted username and password for the database Actual Results: unencrypted username and password for the database are seen Expected Results: The username and passwords should be read from a file that is not world readable Additional info:
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 156076 ***