Hi ALL, You will find all the details you need to set up debian-sys-maint account under /etc/mysql/debian.cnf
GRANT SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, CREATE, DROP, RELOAD, SHUTDOWN, PROCESS, FILE, REFERENCES, INDEX, ALTER, SHOW DATABASES, SUPER, CREATE TEMPORARY TABLES, LOCK TABLES, EXECUTE, REPLICATION SLAVE, REPLICATION CLIENT ON *.* TO 'debian-sys-maint'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY PASSWORD 'password' WITH GRANT OPTION Regards, Igor BTW, this is my First post. On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 6:15 PM, Carlos Williams <carlosw...@gmail.com>wrote: > I am using Debian 'Squeeze' / Testing on with MySQL 5.1.41-3 > installed. It is a fresh install and I was checking all the system > accounts and noticed that Debian has a 'debian-sys-maint' account on > 'localhost'. Has anyone ever removed this account? Do I need it or can > I safely remove this account? I don't understand why it's there. I > don't want to break MySQL even though there is no data or databases on > this machine but I would like to keep this as clean as possible. > > Thanks for any input. > > -Carlos > > -- > MySQL General Mailing List > For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql > To unsubscribe: > http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=nixofort...@googlemail.com > >