Hey, When i activate remote access for a DB nothing happens, I am still not able to access the db remotely. The only firewall record is: tcp/udp 20,21,22,25,53,80,110,143,443,3306,8080,10000 53,3306 Am I missing something? -mbogh
You have to wait at least one minute, all changes are appliaed by a cronjob which runs once a minute.
There is a bind-address line in your my.cnf (located in /etc/mysql/my.cnf on Debian). Usually it's set to 127.0.0.1 by default. I believe you can just comment that line out.
Consider yourself lucky that you won't have bots trying to dictionary or rainbow attack your database. Allowing remote access to a data base through an unsecured channel is not a good idea. Instead, try something like http://www.howtoforge.com/secure_mysql_connection_ssh_tunnel That was written for connecting via MysqlAdministrator but the same concept can apply to just about anything you want to do, including talking from server to server. If at all possible, ALWAYS go through an ssl tunnel so that all access is not only secured but local. I should also add that remote access can be disabled depending on how one's grant table is populated. If a given user, or all users are only listed as using a local connection, including root, then no one can access remotely no matter what any other configuration you might have.
