someone probably installed mysql for DHCP address e.g 192.168.fu.bar then as luck would have it the IP address changed
if you pull all network connections everyone on that box should be able to access mysql Salutations de l'état du chômage Martin Gainty ______________________________________________ Note de déni et de confidentialité Ce message est confidentiel et peut être privilégié. Si vous n'êtes pas le destinataire prévu, nous te demandons avec bonté que pour satisfaire informez l'expéditeur. N'importe quelle diffusion non autorisée ou la copie de ceci est interdite. Ce message sert à l'information seulement et n'aura pas n'importe quel effet légalement obligatoire. Étant donné que les email peuvent facilement être sujets à la manipulation, nous ne pouvons accepter aucune responsabilité pour le contenu fourni. > Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:48:36 -0700 > From: listm...@websage.ca > To: mysql@lists.mysql.com > Subject: Re: Passwords not working > > On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:30:47 -0700 > John Oliver <joli...@john-oliver.net> wrote: > > > I have a problem with MySQL passwords... I set them, write them > > down... and they stop working. I have to go in and manually reset > > them. > > > > Right now, I have a database that, even after resetting the password, > > I still cannot access it. > > > > /var/log/mysql.log doesn't give me any useful information. How can I > > get MySQL to tell me what it's unhappy about, or get more information > > from the client other than it just didn't work? > > > > I also have problems with MySQL resolving names, or not resolving > > names, or ??? I usually add 'user'@'ip.address' and > > 'user'@'host.name' But, more and more often, I've had to put > > skip-name-resolve in my.cnf, but with my current problem, I'm still > > seeing that 'user'@'host-name' is being rejected, even when I use -h > > ip.address on the command line > > > > And when I add those two users, and go to reset passwords, it doesn't > > want to let me specify 'user'@'ip.address' or 'user'@'host.name' but > > just 'user' I *think* it's resetting the password for both... the > > hashes are always the same. But I just don't know. > > > > What am I missing? > > > > > Are you accessing MySQL from the same host? If so, you don't need the > -h option unless that's the only entry in your grant table under that > username (i.e. 'user'@'ip-address'). > > Can you give us an example of how you're setting the username and their > permissions? Here's a typical example that gives access to an entire > database to a single user provided they're accessing it on the same > host: > > GRANT ALL on <database-name>.* to 'user'@'localhost' identified by > 'foobar'; > > The username, password AND hostname have to match up for > authentication to be successful: 'user'@'localhost' may be different > than 'user'@'ip-address' even if they're intended to be the same person. > > > -- > > Greg Maruszeczka > > Office: 250.412.9651 || Mobile: 250.886.4577 > Skype: websage.ca || GTalk IM: gmarus > > http://websage.ca > > GnuPG-ID: 0x4309323E, http://pgp.mit.edu > > -- > MySQL General Mailing List > For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql > To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=mgai...@hotmail.com > _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail: Trusted email with Microsoft’s powerful SPAM protection. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/177141664/direct/01/
