RE: root user: required to exist after initial setup?

2002-01-07 Thread Jeff Corliss
--- Simon Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Jeff > As long as you have a user that has access to all of > MySQL and can enter > from root on the systems, what you call it is not > important. > Infact it is a good thing to change the root user > name for security. > Simon Thanks for the respon

root user: required to exist after initial setup?

2002-01-07 Thread Jeff Corliss
Hi All, New to mySql. I've setup ok, running ok, read thru the privilege system docs. My question is about the user "root": is it absolutely necessary to keep this user or is it ok to delete the root user (after setting up an equivalent "super-user" under another name)? Thanks, Jeff ___