Re: Security: is 'root' truly neccessary?

2002-09-24 Thread Paul DuBois
At 16:53 -0700 9/24/02, Tom Emerson wrote: >Being new to MySQL, it took a while to grok how "security" works. Now that >I have a bit of a better understanding, a mental "revalation" is coming to >the surface of my mind: since "mysql" users are NOT unix/windows-domain >"users", is the "root" user

Security: is 'root' truly neccessary?

2002-09-24 Thread Tom Emerson
Being new to MySQL, it took a while to grok how "security" works. Now that I have a bit of a better understanding, a mental "revalation" is coming to the surface of my mind: since "mysql" users are NOT unix/windows-domain "users", is the "root" user truly needed for a functional mysql environment