On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 04:43:07PM +0200, Warren Burstein wrote: > > I am running mysql Ver 12.20 Distrib 4.0.13, for pc-linux (i686) on > RedHat 6.2 (so shoot me, I'm using an old scratch computer so I > won't break anything on the real development machine) > > I tried to create a user by inserting directly into mysql.user.
Why? The GRANT command is what you probably ought to be using. Anyway... > When I set user.host to localhost, it works, when I set it to % it > doesn't. I thought % matched anything, and so should match > localhost. In case I've missed something in the docs, please direct > me to the correct page. It's a little funky, but MySQL treads TCP connections differently than local unix socket connections. Using the "%" wildcard will match any host or IP address connecting via TCP, but not via the local socket. Because the local socket is local, localhost is really the only possibility. Jeremy -- Jeremy D. Zawodny | Perl, Web, MySQL, Linux Magazine, Yahoo! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://jeremy.zawodny.com/ -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
