When you install Moodle is the My SQL secure from being Hacked?

When you install Moodle is the My SQL secure from being Hacked?

by Christopher Saunders -
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In the Passwords file it says the User = root has no password.
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Re: When you install Moodle is the My SQL secure from being Hacked?

by Tim Hunt -
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How did you install Moodle, on which operating system, ...
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Re: When you install Moodle is the My SQL secure from being Hacked?

by Christopher Saunders -
I am using Windows XP Home smile
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Re: When you install Moodle is the My SQL secure from being Hacked?

by Jon Witts -
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Is this just a testing system or do you have it open to the Internet / network?
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Re: When you install Moodle is the My SQL secure from being Hacked?

by Christopher Saunders -
Well, I have been attempting to put it on the internet and can't figure out why that isn't working but at the moment it is behind a router.

Thank you
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Re: When you install Moodle is the My SQL secure from being Hacked?

by Jon Witts -
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I would definitely NOT recommend putting a Windows XP system on the Internet as a webserver! You should use an operating system designed for being a server; Windows Server 2003 at least, or preferably Linux...
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Re: When you install Moodle is the My SQL secure from being Hacked?

by cor kuijt -
In the windows install try C:\wamp\bin\mysql\mysql5.1.30\bin> mysqladmin -u root password NEWPASSWORD.

Where C:\wamp\.. should match the path of your install pointing to the mysql bin folder and NEWPASSWORD should be changed to the pass you want to give te (mysql) root user.

Greets.
Cor.
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