Stuart D Jackson wrote:
>
> Might it have something to do with the fact that netscape (and
> other browsers) like to do stuff (like ftp) as anonymous instead of a
> regular user?
>
> -Stuart
No, netscape has no knowledge of MySQL, and can communicate with it only
indirectly through web server applications, applets, and possibly
plug-ins that know how to talk to MySQL. Netscape itself will never send
the authentication info for MySQL connection.
>
> On Mon, 26 Jul 1999, Jerry Preeper wrote:
>
> > This seems weird but I just noticed that the mysql daemon wasn't allowing a
> > connection from the web browser with the error message "Access denied for
> > user: '@localhost' to database..." in the error log. However, when I run
> > mysql mysql from the command line (or for any database) everything seems
> > fine and I can run commands without a problem. I tried restarting and get
> > the same problem. I haven't changed any users or anything like that, in
> > fact I hadn't even used it in a couple of weeks. I just checked the
> > version and I'm running Ver 9.27 Distrib 3.22.14b-gamma, for
> > unknown-freebsd2.2.6 (i386) on FreeBSD 2.2.8-stable (and yes mysql has been
> > running since after we upgraded to 2.2.8-stable). Anyone ever seen this
> > and have any ideas on how to fix it.
> >
Can you post the code that give you this error. It seems to me that you
are sending an empty string for the user parameter when connecting to
MySQL.
> > Jerry
> >
> >
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