John,
Wednesday, November 27, 2002, 2:50:09 PM, you wrote:

JC> This is what my users look like:
JC> Host              Users          Password            Privileges
JC> localhost     administrator    yes               has all priv.
JC> localhost     root                 yes               has all priv.

JC> Is this a good?   If the host is localhost does that mean no one can access 
JC> it unless they have "like physical" access?  In other words they can't 
JC> connect to it via IP address.

It means that you connect from local box. On Unix if you connect to
the localhost, you connect via Unix socket. If MySQL server are
running on Win, you will connect via TCP/IP.




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