From: Michael Stassen
Date: September 2 2005 4:08pm
Subject: Re: Trouble with revoke all
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Scott Haneda wrote:
> on 9/2/05 1:27 AM, Gleb Paharenko at gleb.paharenko@stripped wrote:
> 
> 
>>Recreate grants for the 'root'@'localhost' user manually. For this
>>
>>purpose restart server with --skip-grant-tables command line options
>>
>>and modify the grant tables. See:
>>
>>  http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/resetting-permissions.html
>>
>>http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/privileges.html
> 
> 
> Modify them how?
> show grants for 'root'@'localhost';
> GRANT SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, CREATE, DROP, RELOAD, SHUTDOWN,
> PROCESS, FILE, REFERENCES, INDEX, ALTER, SHOW DATABASES, SUPER, LOCK TABLES,
> EXECUTE, REPLICATION SLAVE, REPLICATION CLIENT ON *.* TO 'root'@'localhost'
> IDENTIFIED BY PASSWORD 'xxxxxxxxxxxx' WITH GRANT OPTION
> 
> This looks pretty much full access to me?

I didn't look closely to see if anything's missing in that list, but full 
access usually looks like this:

   GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'root'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY PASSWORD
   'xxxxxxxxxxxx' WITH GRANT OPTION

Michael