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Right, I did not feel good about deleting root.
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Right, I did not feel good about deleting root.

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I understand the exposure of having a public facing website with username root.<br />
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So, I have created a new username and changed my WordPress site to use that new username.<br />
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Shall I delete the &quot;root&quot; username?<br />
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Thanks.
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I understand the exposure of having a public facing website with username root.

So, I have created a new username and changed my WordPress site to use that new username.

Shall I delete the "root" username?

Thanks.

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MySQL: Deleting &quot;root&quot; username

MySQL: Deleting "root" username