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=arch...@jab.org
