creating a user for phpmyadmin

[Zbigniew Koziol]

JoeHill, dont be afraid to edit files manually.

You are probably on your home computer that is not broadly open to the
Internet, possibly besides a router (iptables are helpfull anyway;
"man iptables"). If so, you do not need to care a lot about security.

MySQL should have better be running as a less privileged user, not as root.

Tend to use the console, not these funny web interfaces.

Besides that not much more on my side. I do not remember details of
how phpmyadmin works.

zb.

On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 1:43 PM, JoeHill <joehill-R6A+fiHC8nRWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> Wading my way through setting up my first mysql database, and I've connected
> with phpmyadmin, but before I go any further I want to make sure I get the user
> creation part exactly right.
>
> I'm getting the warning from phpmyadmin/mysql that "Your configuration file
> contains settings (root with no password) that correspond to the default MySQL
> privileged account. Your MySQL server is running with this default, is open to
> intrusion, and you really should fix this security hole."
>
> I've read some articles on setting up the first user, but they were based on a
> totally manual installation and configuration, so I'm not sure if these are
> appropriate. Is it advisable to edit the phpmyadmin config manually, or is
> there an operation within the web interface that I'm not seeing?
>
> --
> Joe
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