Hello,
Today I was working with MySQL in a test box (CentOS 5.0 x86_64) using phpMyAdmin interface. Accidentaly I've removed user table in mysql database (so, mysql.users)...
:S
I've two interesting questions:
1) Despite of it, ddbb server seems to work perfectly. I use 3/4 diferent databases with their mysql users... and it works yet! I don't understand, because mysql.users is the reference that MySQL server uses to admin their users and permissions access.
¿?¿?¿?¿?¿ Maybe a kind of memory caché is active... but I think this have not any sense...
I've suposed the mysql.user was totally _required_.
2) ¿How I can reisert mysql.user table without reinstall entire package? I've got only a few mysql users only and I can recreate their permissions access in short time.