At 12:37 +0300 12/24/02, clread@stripped wrote:
> >Description:
>The command
>
> GRANT ALL ON dbname.* TO larry@"%" IDENTIFIED BY 'larry123';
> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
>
>properly changes the mysql.user table. However, if I subsequently
>attempt to use the mysql client like this
>
> mysql -h <myhostname> -u larry -p dbname
>
>and enter 'larry123' at the password prompt, I get an error:
>
> Access denied for user: 'larry@myhostname' (Using password: YES)
When you try this, are you running the mysql command on the server host?
If so, you're running into problems that are due to the anonymous-user
entries in the mysql.user table. Remove them, issue a FLUSH PRIVILEGES
statement, and try again. The problem will go away.
>
>But this is wrong, it seems. If I look in the mysql.user table,
>I find this line:
>
> % | larry | <encrypted password> | ...
>
>suggesting that the correct information is there, but that
>the wildcard '%' is not working.
