From: Gavin Towey (gtoweyffn.com)
Date: Thu Mar 11 2010 - 14:56:14 CST

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DROP USER '''localhost';

If you use the correct GRANT/REVOKE and CREATE/DROP commands it's not necessary to update the tables and run FLUSH PRIVILEGES. IMO manipulating those tables directly is a bad habit.

-----Original Message-----
From: Carlos Mennens [mailto:carloswillgmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 8:32 AM
To: MySQL
Subject: Re: Error Removing Anonymous Accounts

On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Rolando Edwards
<redwardslogicworks.net> wrote:
> DELETE FROM mysql.user WHERE user='';
> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

That worked and I thank you however I am wondering why the MySQL guide
was incorrect? Perhaps it's right but I did something wrong. Any
thoughts?

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