Translations:Manual:Maintenance scripts/5/en

MySQL
Some of the maintenance scripts require database permissions that, for security reasons, the main MediaWiki database account should not have. A separate database account with 'superuser' privileges for just the MediaWiki database should be created (if it does not already exist.) If the database that you use for MediaWiki is called , then the following SQL would create such a user who can exercise superuser privileges on localhost.: