May 2003
Intermediate to advanced
592 pages
14h 28m
English
Once MySQL has been successfully installed, you should immediately set a password for the root user. Until you have done so, anyone can access the database and have administrative-level privileges. Windows users who followed the steps earlier for installing MySQL can skip this step, since the root user was created the first time the WinMySQLadmin application was run.
Once you’ve established the root user’s password, you can begin establishing the users who will regularly access the database (for example, from PHP scripts). It is very insecure to use the root user for general purposes.
The mysqladmin utility, as the name might imply, is used to perform administrative-level tasks on your database. ...
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