Re: anonymous localhost user in mysql user grant table

2004-08-25 Thread Egor Egorov
"rusty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What's the purpose of the entry in the user table where it has > host='localhost' and user='' (blank) and all of the permissions set to N? You may want to look at http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Privilege_system.html and http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/

anonymous localhost user in mysql user grant table

2004-08-23 Thread rusty
What's the purpose of the entry in the user table where it has host='localhost' and user='' (blank) and all of the permissions set to N? In other words, is this some sort of security safety net and it would be dangerous to delete it? Or is it an example of setting up an anonymous locahost user