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Re: [cobalt-users] MySQL my.cnf port=



> Hello. I want to secure the MySQL daemon on my raq3, and without
> using ipchains to block access to 3306, can i just change the
> my.cnf "port=" setting to blank or something indicating not to
> listen on any TCP ports? (Couldn't find any documentation on 



C:\app\mysql>bin\mysqld --help

[snip] 

--skip-networking    Don't allow connection with TCP/IP.



i believe you can pass this to safe_mysqld also.