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Why does Debian (and thus implicitly, MySQL) feel compelled to replace the “root” user in MySQL with “debian-sys-maint”? If there was a debian-sys-maint for system stuff and a “root” user for root to use to administer MySQL, it would be fine. But instead, the only user created is debian-sys-maint, so the user is left to either (a) suffer through a bizarre setup for no good reason, or (b) manually add the grant for user root.<\/p>\n

Plus, I’m trying to install cacti, and the Debian package blows up because it tries to let root create the database, not debian-sys-maint.<\/p>\n

Argh!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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