REVOKE ALL PRIVILEGES FROM [EMAIL PROTECTED] seems to be a 4.1 form of the command (I have 4.0.15) but adding '@localhost' did the trick. Thank you.
On Wed, 17 Mar 2004, Michael Stassen wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I was trying to allocate a new user and I typed something like: > > > > grant all privileges on pail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] identified by 'hill'; > > Here you grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] all privileges on a table named pail. > > > > > I realized I made a mistake needing to specify (at least) 'pail.*', intending to > > grant the user access to a database I created. So to clean up I tried: > > > > revoke all privileges on mysql.pail from jill; > > ERROR 1141: There is no such grant defined for user 'jill' on host '%' > > You didn't specify the host (localhost), so you got the default, which > is %. You don't have a user named '[EMAIL PROTECTED]', however, so you got an error. > > > In the privilege tables there is an entry for the user in 'user' and an entry > > in 'tables_priv'. Nothing any where else. The entries look reasonable (to me). > > > > In user: all privileges='N'; > > In pail: > > > > Table_priv: Select,Insert,Update,Delete,Create,Drop,References,Index,Alter > > > > I assume this is my error and I can remove the two entries manually but I > > would like to know what I am doing wrong. > > You can clean up with > > REVOKE ALL PRIVILEGES FROM [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > then use > > GRANT ALL ON pail.* to [EMAIL PROTECTED] identified by 'hill' > > to grant rights to the pail db. > > _____ > > Douglas Denault > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Michael > > > -- > MySQL General Mailing List > For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql > To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > _____ Douglas Denault [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: 301-469-8766 Fax: 301-469-0601 -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
