On Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 06:07:36PM -0600, Mike White wrote:
> I am trying to GRANT access to user xyz@stripped. MYSQL has a
> problem with the white-home portion of the domain name. I have tried
> several ways to get around this including quoting the string. So I used the
> '%' to grant access but then the mm.mysql JDBC API uses xyz.white-home.com
> and not localhost so the authorization fails. This leads me to believe that
> MySQL has a basic problem with a hypnated domain name. This domain name is
> perfectly legal does anyone know of a fix or what I'm missing?
>
> The statement I'm using is:
>
> GRANT INSERT,UPDATE,DELETE,SELECT TO xyz.* FOR xyz@stripped
> IDENTIFIED BY 'aaaaa';
>
> I get
> error 1064: you have an error in your SQL syntax near -white.com IDENTIFIED
> BY 'aaaaa'' at line 1
>
> So I enclosed the user name stuff in double quotes as well as the password
> and get
> .
> GRANT INSERT,UPDATE,DELETE,SELECT TO xyz.* FOR "xyz@stripped"
> IDENTIFIED BY "aaaaa";
>
> error 1145: The host or user argument to GRANT is too long
Quote the user and host parts separately: 'xyz'@'xyz.white-home.com'
>
> I have MySQL-3.23.36-1 rpm installed on a Redhat 7.1 linux system.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Mike White
> mike@stripped
