[drupal-support] Installation issues

[Torgeir Berg]

Paul Greene wrote:
  > How do you create a user in MySQL? (let me reiterate I'm just as new at
> MySQL as I am at Drupal).
> 
> Or does MySQL use operating system level user accounts? I've tried 
> "mysql", "dba_user", and "root" and none of them have worked. MySQL only 
> added the "mysql" account on its own.

MySQL has it's own user database. On most standard MySQL setups the 
superuser is 'root' with no password initially set.

mysqladmin -u root create name_of_db


hth

Torgeir