Dimitri Mallis wrote:
hi list

firstly am in the right place to ask this sort of question

i installed mysql 5.0 from the repos on ubuntu dapper drake

i could only go in to mysql when i was root, & then i guess i am
suposed to add users there.

You've got things confused.

'mysql' the service, you can only run as the root user. So

/etc/init.d/mysqld

you can only run as the system root user (ie you do "su -" or log in as "root").


To create users inside mysql, read this page:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/create-user.html

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