On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Chad<innocentkil...@gmail.com> wrote: > HM is right on what these users are for. Some (not all) maintenance > scripts require higher permissions than your normal $wgDBuser, so > $wgDBadminuser is supposed to have those privileges.
$wgDBuser needs to have DELETE rights on pretty much all tables, so what's the security gain of bothering with a different user for ALTER TABLE/CREATE TABLE/etc.? $wgDBadminuser doesn't need to be able to create new databases or reconfigure replication or anything, right? _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
