Create Root Privilege User on MySQL

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By default, MySQL root privileges user is “root”, I always remove “root” userid once I got MySQL installed, mainly for security purpose, secondly I do not want stupid thing happened like someone able to brute force into MySQL database.

You can create “root” alike privilege user in MySQL by following the step below;

  • Access to mysql /usr/local/bin/mysql
  • mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO ‘yourusername’@’localhost’ IDENTIFIED BY ‘yourpasswordhere’ WITH GRANT OPTION;
  • mysql> flush privileges;
  • mysql> quit;

You can add a few more privileges user if you have more than 1 person to admin MySQL Database.

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