On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 03:24:01PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > One other small point is the bootstrapping problem: if you can't get > into the database to modify the config table, you've got trouble. Hence MySQL's --skip-grant-tables option; if you've locked yourself out then you have to disable security entirely to get back in and fix the problem. With a configuration that you can edit from outside the database, you can usually get back in without having to punch as big a hole. -- Michael Fuhr
