On Tue, Dec 16, 2003, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 16, 2003, Michael Schloh von Bennewitz wrote:
>> Let's make the default user different than 'root', for clarity reasons:
>>
>>   --- my.pwd       4 Dec 2002 10:03:20 -0000       1.1
>>   +++ my.pwd       16 Dec 2003 13:43:55 -0000
>>   @@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
>>   [mysqladmin]
>>   -user     = root
>>   +user     = myroot
>>    password =
>>
>> My MySQL skills are nearly nil so I ask, is there any reason not to do this?
>
> No, this is neither a good idea nor a sufficient patch, I think.
> The "root" is hard-coded in more things and the MySQL users
> are used to "root" as their RDBMS super-user.
>
MySQL user aquaintance was my first concern, so 'root' is clearly the
correct default user name I guess.

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