Re: GRANT temporarily removes passwods until FLUSH

[C.W.]

Sergei Golubchik wrote:
Hi!
On May 27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 

Description: Using the GRANT command causes the password to be
     

deleted until 'FLUSH PRIVILEGES' is executed.  This is a security
problem.
   

Search the bugdb - http://bugs.mysql.com/
the bug is reported there and is already fixed.
Regards,
Sergei
 

Thank you;  I missed that (presumably you mean Bug #2953).
Seems like a very serious security issue to leave the precompiled 
binaries online for over 3 months with this bug in them.