From: Claudio Nanni
Date: August 1 2010 8:54am
Subject: Re: strange authentication issue
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sorry I went to sleep CEST here,

its created by default by MySQL

Cheers!

Claudio


On 8/1/2010 2:15 AM, Corey wrote:
> On Saturday 31 July 2010 5:11:33 Claudio Nanni wrote:
>    
>> login as root and remove 'empty' user ,issue:
>>
>> delete from mysql.user where user='';
>> flush privileges;
>>
>> mysql authentication system is logging you on as 'empty' user.
>>
>> you will be ok after that ;)
>>
>>      
> Man, thanks a ton!   That was it!
>
> I'll have to look into why/how an empty user was created... but
> at least it's fixed now.
>
>
> Beers!
>
>