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MySQL user can be changed to root Mar 08 2003 11:58AM
=?iso-8859-1?Q??= bugsman (at) libero (dot) it [email concealed] (bugsman libero it)
Hi. I tried this on my own MySQL 3.23.55 !!!

I found out that logging as the root user, we can change mysqld to run as root instead that i.e. mysql but this works only if there's just one my.cnf file and it is locate in /etc...

Here's how I did it...

I logged in as root and than I did this:

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