>Description:
        

Unclear documentation on how user permissions work.  I've been using databases for 
about a year and have experience with Postgres and Oracle.  

How do I add a new user??  How do permission work??  I've spent an hour now and I 
still get:
ERROR 1044: Access denied for user: '@localhost' to database 'mysql'


>How-To-Repeat:
        

Install MySQL.

>Fix:
        

Better documentation.

>Submitter-Id:  <submitter ID>
>Originator:    Jonathan Dugan
>Organization:
 
>MySQL support: [none | licence | email support | extended email support ]
>Synopsis:      
>Severity:      
>Priority:      
>Category:      mysql
>Class:         
>Release:       mysql-3.22.25 (Source distribution)
>Server: /usr/bin/mysqladmin  Ver 7.11 Distrib 3.22.25, for pc-linux-gnu on i686
TCX Datakonsult AB, by Monty

Server version          3.22.25
Protocol version        10
Connection              Localhost via UNIX socket
UNIX socket             /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
Uptime:                 16 sec

Threads: 1  Questions: 1  Slow queries: 0  Opens: 6  Flush tables: 1  Open tables: 2
>Environment:
        
System: Linux iscb.stanford.edu 2.2.16-3smp #1 SMP Mon Jun 19 19:00:35 EDT 2000 i686 
unknown
Architecture: i686

Some paths:  /usr/bin/perl /usr/bin/make /usr/bin/gmake /usr/bin/gcc /usr/bin/cc
GCC: Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/egcs-2.91.66/specs
gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)
Compilation info: CC='egcs'  CFLAGS='-O6 -fomit-frame-pointer'  CXX='egcs'  
CXXFLAGS='-O6 -fomit-frame-pointer            -felide-constructors -fno-exceptions 
-fno-rtti'  LDFLAGS=''
Configure command: ./configure  --enable-shared --enable-assembler 
--with-mysqld-user=mysql --with-unix-socket-path=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock --prefix=/ 
--exec-prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/usr/sbin --sysconfdir=/etc --datadir=/usr/share 
--localstatedir=/var/lib/mysql --infodir=/usr/info --includedir=/usr/include 
--mandir=/usr/man
Perl: This is perl, version 5.005_03 built for i386-linux

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