mytop: least privileges required to run it?
- by STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED
What is the minimum set of privileges that mytop requires in order to work, without actually requiring super-user privileges.
I feel uncomfortable with the fact that I have to save the password in the configuration file (the less desirable alternative would be the command line), so I want to minimize the impact, should someone get to see the password. The password will still be used only in this one place, but I would prefer to not give unneeded privileges to the (MySQL) user mytop is running as.
The mytop documentation doesn't mention any of that and all examples assume root.