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Accidentally deleted mariadb.sys user

I deleted the MariaDB.sys user and now I cannot view any of the users I have created. I installed MariaDB using homebrew on MacOS.

I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling MariaDB but the issue remains.

I am a student just trying to setup my machine for a databases class. Is there a way to remove all associated data from my system and reinstall MariaDB? I don't really care about recovering data, I just want a clean install that I can use.

Any help would be great.

Answer Answered by Daniel Black in this comment.

recreate the user with:

CREATE USER `mariadb.sys`@`localhost` ACCOUNT LOCK PASSWORD EXPIRE
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