MYSQL restrict user access to information_schema

Question

I have a MySQL server (Server version: 5.1.68-community; MySQL client version: 5.0.51a). Is there any way to restrict ALL access to information_schema for all users?

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Answer 1

One cannot prevent access to the information_schema (yet), but in the case of sql-injections through GET Request, it is easy to do a:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}   !handle_error\.php
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}   information_schema
RewriteRule  ^(.*?)          /handle_error.php [R=301,L]

in your .htaccess and this should save one some headache.