June 2005
Intermediate
720 pages
20h 6m
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 your databases 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 when the MySQL configuration wizard 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, so everyone should create some new MySQL users for regular use.
The mysqladmin utility, as the name might imply, is ...
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