Re: [cobalt-users] MySQL Administration for End Users

[Kris Dahl <krislists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

on 7/29/00 2:24 PM, Steven Werby at steven-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Brian Emerson <bemerson71@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I want to start offering MySQL database and PHP to my Cobalt web hosting
>> customers. If anyone is doing this now, how do you enable your customers
> to
>> manage their database?
> 
> You could provide them shell access and let them administer through the
> MySQL shell, but I rarely do this myself as I rarely grant shell access to
> my servers.  If the client has shell access to another server running the
> MySQL client program they can also access this way.  Other options include

You can also ask them what their IP address is and grant them access from
remote to that IP.  THen they can run whatever client they wand--including
the mySQL shell (which you can get for just about any platform), phpMyAdmin,
Access, whatever.

-k