From: Paul DuBois Date: April 12 1999 7:37pm Subject: Re: Access denied for Host % List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/1721 Message-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 2:30 PM -0500 4/12/99, Andrey Zmievski wrote: >I have compiled the latest version of mysql and started having a problem with >database access and priviliges carried over from mysql 3.22.15. For some >users I had % for the Host field so that access from any host is allowed. >Now when I tried to connect as that user I get access denied. Only if I >change Host to a specific host I am accessing from it will work. What's the >deal? Do you have an entry in the user table with "localhost/blank"? If so, it probably matches before the entry with a user name specified explicitly, at least for connections from the local host. Try deleting the localhost entry and try again. -- Paul DuBois, paul@stripped Northern League Chronicles: http://www.snake.net/nl/