Hi, Rhys, Felipe, It's not reserved in any way.
If you create a user named "system user", you'll see yet another "system user" row in the SHOW PROCESSLIST, but with non-empty host. That's all. On Feb 15, [email protected] wrote: > The "system user" identifies internal tasks spawned by the server. See here... > > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10330159/mysql-system-user > > Never tried to create a user called this so no idea if it's > reserved... but not really a good idea anyway. > > Rhys > > -----Original Message----- > From: Maria-discuss On Behalf Of Felipe Gasper > Sent: 14 February 2019 16:47 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Maria-discuss] “system user” in SHOW PROCESSLIST > > Hi all, > > https://mariadb.com/kb/en/library/show-processlist/ > > ^^ The above doesn’t describe “system user” in the result of SHOW > PROCESSLIST, but that’s what I observe in 10.2.21. > > What is the meaning of “system user” in the output of this command? Is > there a list of these “special” values for the User column? Are these > reserved names (i.e., no DB user should be named “system user”)? > > Thank you! Regards, Sergei Chief Architect MariaDB and [email protected] _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~maria-discuss Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~maria-discuss More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

