[Phpmyadmin-devel] Create Database

[Tom Sommer - dreamcoder.dk]

Garvin Hicking wrote:
> Hi Tom! :)

Hey Garv, somehow I know you would answer :)

>>Where it is the ereg($re0 . '%|_', $show_grants_dbname) parts that
>>returns true (1).
>>
>>Now, I don't really know what this ereg() does, except for this part:
>>$re0 = '(^|(\\\\\\\\)+|[^\])';
>>Which I am sorry to say I don't understand.
> 
> As you are using an underscore in your grant, that one acts as a wildcard
> character; thus your user is effectively able to create databases matching that
> wildcard scheme.
> 
> See our FAQ 6.10 or this recent support request
> https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=377408&aid=965109&group_id=23067
> for more information on that issue.

I see, okay I can understand it's function and it's purpose now.
I will just hack around it on my servers.


Thanks

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Tom Sommer