That is allowed by default on MySQL.
What is disabled by default is remote root access. If you want to enable that, run this SQL command locally:
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'root'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'password' WITH GRANT OPTION;
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
And then find the following line and comment it out in your my.cnf file, which usually lives on /etc/mysql/my.cnf on Unix/OSX systems.
In some cases the location for the file is /etc/mysql/mysql.conf.d/mysqld.cnf.
If it's a Windows system, you can find it in the MySQL installation directory, usually something like C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.5\ and the filename will be my.ini.
Change line
bind-address = 127.0.0.1
to
#bind-address = 127.0.0.1
And restart the MySQL server (Unix/OSX, and Windows) for the changes to take effect.
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