From: Johan De Meersman Date: March 31 2010 7:07am Subject: Re: Secure Install Removed Root Accounts List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/221103 Message-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=0016e68ee4b3c1895004831364e3 --0016e68ee4b3c1895004831364e3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 12:25 AM, Carlos Mennens wrote: > hearing from many admins that MySQL expects and needs there to be > three accounts for root. Them being 'localhost', 127.0.0.1, and > hostname. Is this false information? > Totally false. It's convenient, and probably all of their scripts depend on it, but it's in no way necessary, and most certainly not without password. Just make sure you have another admin account :-) -- Bier met grenadyn Is als mosterd by den wyn Sy die't drinkt, is eene kwezel Hy die't drinkt, is ras een ezel --0016e68ee4b3c1895004831364e3--