<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Tony Sauri <span dir="ltr"><<a href="http://hoiho.nz">hoiho.nz</a>@<a href="http://gmail.com">gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
It would seem like very<br>
poor application design if it is right. Surely a Frontend can be thought of<br>
as a client and the Backend as a server. If the client can tell the server<br>
to reconfigure it is like the tail wagging the dog and opens up all sorts of<br>
Denial of Service questions<br></blockquote><br>If you're allowing random machines to connect to your mythtv database then a DOS due to a frontend upgrading the db is the least of your security concerns. Someone or something could just as easily connect and delete the entire db. If you want security on the database then it's your responsibility to set it up so that it is secure.<br>
<br>I agree that having frontends do db schema upgrades seems like a bad idea. The docs do say not to use different versions on the front and back ends though.<br><br>Cheers,<br>Steve<br></div>