Re: mySQL logon PROBLEM!!
Thus spake Francisco Castellon:
> This is what I am doing.
> Log in to my Debian machine through SSH remotely using a regular user
> account (not root). I type in "mysql -u root" and it logs me into mysql
> as if I were root. It doesn't ask me for a password AT ALL, and I have
> root privileges, this means that any user with an account in that system
> can log on to mysql as root by typing the above command. What is it that
> I should be doing to fix this?
Read the PASSWORDS section of /usr/share/doc/mysql-server/README.Debian
When you installed, it should have popped up a message notifying you
that you needed to set a password for the mysql root user.
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Nathan Poznick <poznick@conwaycorp.net>
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