I much prefer the current behavior, our customers have no access to
the local host and anyone trying to gain access from the local host
with a sniffed password and account would fail. I am mildly paranoid,
but it gives me comfort (however unjust).
Ken
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Ken Menzel ICQ# 9325188
www.icarz.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> I think the intention of the '%' is to use something like:
'%.eliteukserve.net'.
>
> I see your logic though. One would assume it should work.
Interesting...
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > We wanted users to be able to connect to a particular db remotely.
Which
> > would mean we would have to change their host to "%" This worked
fine, but
> > when we did that, we could not connect locally. In order to
connect locally,
> > we to create another user with the host value of localhost to get
into the
> > db. I took "%" to mean from ANY host??? Am I mistaken or is this a
bug?
> >
> > Version mysql : 3.22.33
> > Linux Version : Cobalt 6.0 (RH 6.0)
> >
> > Dave Carter
> > Chief Web Architect
> > Accelerated Business Technologies, Inc.
> > http://www.abti.cc
> > 717.464.2970
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