Re: "ERROR 2002" or "I promise I'm not just stupid." or "why would mysql care who i'm logged in as?"

[Paul DuBois]

At 1:40 PM -0500 9/24/99, nathaniel c. daiger wrote:
>so i've been using mysql for a while and it's great, ra ra ra and all, but
> recently it started acting weird.
>
>when a normal user tries to use the mysql client on the localhost's server, it
> says "ERROR 2002 blah blah".
>
>BUT, if i su to root, and then try to connect as the same user (on the
> localhost, using mysq.sock), it works.
>
>why in god's name would mysql care what user i'm logged in as?

Because your default MySQL user name if you don't specify one is your
UNIX login name.  It sounds like you're not specifying a user name when
you run mysql.

Is the behavior you're describing above different than it used to be
somehow?

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Paul DuBois, paul@stripped