Rolf Hopkins says:
>If your client is really a production server, look up flush privileges in
>the manual or restart the mysql server.
I had been doing a flush privileges in another script later on, but
for whatever reason it wasn't having the intended effect. It turns
out a mysqladmin reload
Firstly mysql security has no relationship with system security.
Secondly, what are you trying to do? Is your machine to be a development
server only while the "client" is the main production server? If not, then
the client machine is a true client and there is no need to install the
mysql serv