I actually get the feeling you are not connecting as root.
Try mysql -uroot -p test instead of just mysql test
Have a nice day,
- Martijn
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 03:02, Joe<mysql.com@stripped> wrote:
> OK, thanks, that got me in. But upon inspection, the user.host
> values do not look fouled up as I thought they were (it appears
> the bogus update may have aborted). But my access problem
> remains
>
> If I start with --skip-grant-tables, 'show databases' shows all
> DBs. But without that flag, I only see the 'information_schema'
> DB.
>
> Any suggestions as to where I look from here?
>
> On Tuesday 25 August 2009 @ 18:17, Walter Heck - OlinData.com
> wrote:
>> Hey Joe,
>>
>> stop the server, start it with --skip-grant-tables, change the
>> root entry in mysql.user to your liking, and then restart the
>> server without --skip-grant-tables.
>>
>> viola!
>>
>> Walter
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 02:12, Joe<mysql.com@stripped>
> wrote:
>> > We have an inaccessible MySQL v5.0.45 DB (w/Innodb) we
>> > really need some help regaining access to. While attempting
>> > to adjust/add remote user access, we accidentally did the
>> > following:
>> >
>> > use mysql;
>> > update user set host = 'SomeBogusIP' where user = 'root';
>> >
>> > Now, we can't get into the DB to fix it:
>> >
>> > # mysql test
>> > ERROR 1044 (42000): Access denied for user ''@'localhost' to
>> > database 'test'
>> > # mysql mysql
>> > ERROR 1044 (42000): Access denied for user ''@'localhost' to
>> > database 'mysql'
>> >
>> > We are not MySQL experts by any stretch, so any help is
>> > appreciated.
>> >
>> >
>> > Here are the files we evidently touched:
>> > # ls -ltr /var/lib/mysql/mysql/
>> > -rw-r----- 1 mysql mysql 5256 Aug 25 17:33 db.MYD
>> > -rw-r----- 1 mysql mysql 844 Aug 25 17:35 user.MYD
>> > -rw-r----- 1 mysql mysql 2048 Aug 25 17:50 user.MYI
>> > -rw-r----- 1 mysql mysql 4096 Aug 25 17:50 db.MYI
>> >
>> > We do have a months-old copy of the 'mysql' db directory.
>> >
>> > Thanks in advance.
>> >
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