Michael, Just I want to know if we grant privileges with '%' wild card character will it accept connection from 127.0.0.1. when I tried it is showing connection request is coming from [EMAIL PROTECTED] and connection is not establishing . to my knowledge '%' means it shouls accept connection from any host . please clarify
Thanks Anil DBA -----Original Message----- From: Michael Stassen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 11:22 PM To: Anil Cc: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: Re: problem with grant Anil wrote: > HI, > > I have granted all privileges to a user to connect from any host like below > > grant all on *.* to [EMAIL PROTECTED] identified by 'password'; > flush privileges; Verify this worked with SHOW GRANTS FOR [EMAIL PROTECTED]; By the way, giving all privileges to a user who can connect from any machine in the world is probably not a good idea. > when I tried to connect to database using ip address like below on the > server where database was hosted > > mysql -u<username> -p -h127.0.0.1 > > I am unable to connect to the database. Please anybody explain what was the > problem We cannot explain, because you have not told us what went wrong. Please provide the exact text of the error message you received (copy/paste). > Thanks > Anil > DBA Michael -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
