On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Joshua Horton wrote:
> Hi,
>
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> First, I'm having trouble determining whether or not it is possible
> to drop a user, or whether I have to go in and delete all that user's
> records in the grant tables. I revoke ALL PRIVILEGES from the user, but
> his entry still apears in the mysql.users table. I have heard it is
> undesirable to directly manipulate the users table.
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I think you can only remove a row from MySQL.user directly. True, GRANT is
preferred to add and alter user accounts, but DELETEing the user's entry in
MySQL.user is fine.
