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Re: Best parctive for renaming root user
Posted by: Thomas Kettenbach
Date: December 27, 2008 11:49AM

I haven't tested it, however:
mysql organizes its users int the mysql database. You may just do an
update mysql.user set user = 'the_secret_user' where user = 'root';
flush privileges;

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