Trouble with revoke all

[Scott Haneda]

Mysql 4.0.18-standard

revoke all on *.* from 'deleteatanytime'@'localhost';

mysql> revoke all on *.* from 'deleteatanytime'@'localhost';
ERROR 1045: Access denied for user: 'root@localhost' (Using password: YES)
mysql> revoke all on *.* from deleteatanytime@localhost;
ERROR 1045: Access denied for user: 'root@localhost' (Using password: YES)

I am ssh'd int the box, so I am localhost, I am root, and it just does not
want to let me remove access privs, in this case, all I have is select
privs.  For the longest time I just delete the user and recreate the
permissions, but I would like to figure out how to make this work.

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