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creativepart · March 31st, 2006, 08:56 AM

Something disturbing happened overnight.

Someone changed the SQL DB username and password in my Classifieds config file.

Obviously, it sounds like some kind of hack. Do you know how anyone could do that? I had the permissions set at 777 for those two files during set up and forgot to bring it back down after. What do you think I should keep these files at? 744 or 655?

Is there anyway to hide the DB password in those files?

In case this is some known problem I'll mention that the new DB username was set to "jembut" and the password to "itil"

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creativepart Member Verified Customer Join Date: May 2003 Location: Spring Branch, Texas Posts: 260	My config file changed overnight Something disturbing happened overnight. Someone changed the SQL DB username and password in my Classifieds config file. Obviously, it sounds like some kind of hack. Do you know how anyone could do that? I had the permissions set at 777 for those two files during set up and forgot to bring it back down after. What do you think I should keep these files at? 744 or 655? Is there anyway to hide the DB password in those files? In case this is some known problem I'll mention that the new DB username was set to "jembut" and the password to "itil"