restore the debian-sys-maint MySQL user
If you’ve accidentally deleted the debian-sys-maint user, you can easily re-create the user. The password is stored in /etc/mysql/debian.cnf: # Automatically generated for Debian scripts. DO NOT TOUCH! [client] host = localhost user = debian-sys-maint password = TOP-SECRET socket = /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock [mysql_upgrade] host = localhost user = debian-sys-maint password = […]