http://www.coderslexicon.com/inserting-images-into-mysql-and-retrieving-them-using-php/

My research came to the same conclusions that large images should be left out of BLOB fields. I did notice that if the imagery was small, say around an icon size that most databases handle this amount fairly well.

However, my stance parallels yours. Leave image data out of it. You gain advantages to having path data to images as well like being able to search the file name etc.

Thanks!

Of course it slows backups, because your are backing up everything, which also simplifies backups, only one backup to do, you don’t have to worry about files.

1) ssh foo@physical.box, then type ‘~~C’, then ‘!command executed on physical.box’.

Running ssh to the vm with -e none on the command line and PermitLocalCommand no in the config file will stop this.

2) ssh foo@physical.box ‘`command executed on physical.box`’

I don’t know of a robust way to avoid this one in bash, but the following should be safe:

#!/usr/bin/perl
my $user = shift(@ARGV);
my $host = shift(@ARGV);

my $command = $ENV{SSH_ORIGINAL_COMMAND};
exec(‘/usr/bin/passwd’) if ($command eq ‘passwd’);
exec(‘/usr/bin/ssh’, ‘-l’, $user, $host, $SSH_ORIGINAL_COMMAND);