My guess is that you have the privileges set on your local box that allow connections with those credentials but the same privileges are not set up on your clients machines.
Although using apache as a user without a password is quite a security risk. And then mailing those details to a public mailing list is probably madness. I would suggest using a different username and setting a password and then using those details to connect to the database. Then set the same privileges on your client's machine -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]