Creating the debian-sys-maint MySQL account on a Debian or Ubuntu system
Submitted by specialj on Thu, 2008-03-13 02:02.
I was working on a server running MySQL and found that the debian-sys-maint account not longer existed which caused errors when upgrading the mysql packages. It was relatively simple to fix by getting the password from the /etc/mysql/debian.cnf file and running the following command:
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'debian-sys-maint'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
In this case the word password is replaced by the value in the /etc/mysql/debian.cnf file.
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I'd say that this is not
I'd say that this is not secure, as you're likely granting privileges that are too wide.