How to connect remotely to MySQL with the standard "root" user ?

$ mysql -u root -p

mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'root'@'xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx' IDENTIFIED BY 'xxxxxxx' WITH GRANT OPTION;

Remember you need to create an account with your IP (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) as host,

this tells MySQL that this user with this IP has permission to remotely access the Database.