Re: secure user name for MySQL account?

2012-09-24 Thread Arthur Fuller
Thanks for the update, Shawn. I'll check it out right now. On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 4:40 PM, Shawn Green wrote: > Hello Arthur, > > > On 9/24/2012 4:25 PM, Arthur Fuller wrote: > >> On this note, one thing that really bugs me about MySQL passwords is the >> inability to use special characters. In

Re: secure user name for MySQL account?

2012-09-24 Thread Shawn Green
Hello Arthur, On 9/24/2012 4:25 PM, Arthur Fuller wrote: On this note, one thing that really bugs me about MySQL passwords is the inability to use special characters. In the SQL Server world, I let users choose their own passwords, but obeying these rules: It cannot be a dictionary word or sequ

Re: secure user name for MySQL account?

2012-09-24 Thread Arthur Fuller
On this note, one thing that really bugs me about MySQL passwords is the inability to use special characters. In the SQL Server world, I let users choose their own passwords, but obeying these rules: It cannot be a dictionary word or sequence of words. It must contain at least one numeric digit. I

Re: secure user name for MySQL account?

2012-09-24 Thread Johan De Meersman
- Original Message - > From: "Rajeev Prasad" > > I am considering using cryptic username for accessing and working on > a database on my MySQL installation. can anyone with experience > provide some suggestion pl? Why would you make your life hard by using cryptic usernames? Have the u

secure user name for MySQL account?

2012-09-24 Thread Rajeev Prasad
I am considering using cryptic username for accessing and working on a database on my MySQL installation. can anyone with experience provide some suggestion pl? in documentation, i only see that it can be 16 char long. how complex it can be? any side effects/bugs of username complexity? can I us

RE: MySQL account permissions

2005-03-28 Thread Tom Crimmins
On Monday, March 28, 2005 15:07, Philippe Reynolds wrote: > Hi, > > I've just create an account and given it all privileges for > "database_name.*". However when I try to 'load data infile' it > tell's me that the account doesn't permit it. > > When I use the 'root' account everything is fine.

RE: The MYSQL account on Linux

2003-11-18 Thread Myhre, Julie
onned and owned by mysql (to keep consistent with our oracle backups owned by the oracle "user"). I keep the mysql account directories uncluttered,not abused, and making use of the mysql user helps organize the administrative tasks. Regards, Julie -Original Message- From: ge

Re: The MYSQL account on Linux

2003-11-18 Thread gerald_clark
Why do you want to login as mysql? This really is not a mysql question, but while logged in as root, enter the command: passwd mysql Myhre, Julie wrote: Hello, I started my current job with MySQL already installed on a Linux box, and no one seemed to know what the mysql account's password was

The MYSQL account on Linux

2003-11-18 Thread Myhre, Julie
Hello, I started my current job with MySQL already installed on a Linux box, and no one seemed to know what the mysql account's password was I want to know/change the Linux password so I can login as mysql. So far it has been fine to become root and su to mysql, as I don't do it THAT often, b

Re: mysql account

2003-10-05 Thread Wang Feng
Thanks Paul. Fully understand!! cheers, feng - Original Message - From: "Paul DuBois" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Wang Feng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 4:38 AM Subject: Re: mysql account > At 14:00

Re: mysql account

2003-10-05 Thread Paul DuBois
At 14:00 +1000 10/5/03, Wang Feng wrote: > If you deleted the rows with a DELETE statement, you'll need to also issue a FLUSH PRIVILEGES statement to cause the server to reread the grant tables. In order to try the FLUSH PRIVILEGES statement, I inserted a new user account into the 'user' table o

Re: mysql account

2003-10-04 Thread Wang Feng
Paul, > I am assuming that the 'alan' account that you're planning to use has > all privileges. Otherwise, you will find after flushing the privileges > that you'll no longer be able to administer your server without starting > it with the --skip-grant-tables option... The *alan* account does h

Re: mysql account

2003-10-04 Thread Wang Feng
e - From: "Thada, Shantalaxmi (NIH/CC/PET)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Wang Feng '" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2003 5:57 AM Subject: RE: mysql account > > do u have a .my.cnf in c:\ dir or c:\windows d

Re: mysql account

2003-10-04 Thread Paul DuBois
At 4:35 +1000 10/5/03, Wang Feng wrote: Hi, folks. I use WinXP + MySQL. I deleted all the rows from the 'user' table of the 'mysql' database except my own account (host: localhost, user: alan, password:alan). --- I was hoping only I have the access to the MySQL databases. The problem is that I st

RE: mysql account

2003-10-04 Thread Thada, Shantalaxmi (NIH/CC/PET)
do u have a .my.cnf in c:\ dir or c:\windows dir ? from DOS when u issue a mysql command it usually picks up the username and password from the .my.cnf file. - Shanta -Original Message- From: Wang Feng To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10/4/2003 2:35 PM Subject: mysql account Hi, folks

mysql account

2003-10-04 Thread Wang Feng
Hi, folks. I use WinXP + MySQL. I deleted all the rows from the 'user' table of the 'mysql' database except my own account (host: localhost, user: alan, password:alan). --- I was hoping only I have the access to the MySQL databases. The problem is that I still can login to MySQL by the DOS comma

Re: How to check disk space used for a mysql account

2002-01-25 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 06:15:38PM -0500, Alex Shi wrote: > > How to check disk space been used for all of the tables of a > specific mysql account? Depends what you mean. MySQL "accounts" don't necessarily map to tables or databases, so how can you properly account

How to check disk space used for a mysql account

2002-01-24 Thread Egor Egorov
Alex, Thursday, January 24, 2002, 1:15:38 AM, you wrote: AS> How to check disk space been used for all of the tables of a specific AS> mysql account? In general, you cannot check that. But tables are just files residing in the datadir - you can check the size of the files. AS

How to check disk space used for a mysql account

2002-01-23 Thread Alex Shi
How to check disk space been used for all of the tables of a specific mysql account? Thanks in advance for all answer! Alex - Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http

Re: mysql "account"? account on "mysql"?

2001-07-31 Thread Jeremy Bussard
On Tuesday 31 July 2001 08:40, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > say i am running a server with mysql and phpmyadmin and i have some > dbs (including of course the mysql db)... > > so when someone says to "set them up a 'MySQL account'" what exactly > do they mean?

mysql "account"? account on "mysql"?

2001-07-31 Thread ididdy
say i am running a server with mysql and phpmyadmin and i have some dbs (including of course the mysql db)... so when someone says to "set them up a 'MySQL account'" what exactly do they mean? and how do i do it? tia

Re: new mysql account

2001-01-26 Thread Boril Yonchev
GRANT USAGE ON table.* TO user@localhost; GRANT select, insert, delete, update ON table.* TO user@localhost; Boril - Original Message - From: "Mac Martine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 3:13 AM Subject: new mysql acc

Re: new mysql account

2001-01-25 Thread Jeremy D. Zawodny
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 07:13:54PM -0600, Mac Martine wrote: > how do i set up another mysql account after setting up the root > account. i used mysqladmin to set up my root account, now i want to > set up a remotye account to access files on my remote server, right? > so i cant fi

new mysql account

2001-01-25 Thread Mac Martine
how do i set up another mysql account after setting up the root account. i used mysqladmin to set up my root account, now i want to set up a remotye account to access files on my remote server, right? so i cant figure out how to set up another account. i even tried uninstalling and re

new mysql account

2001-01-25 Thread Mac Martine
how do i set up another mysql account after setting up the root account. i used mysqladmin to set up my root account, now i want to set up a remotye account to access files on my remote server, right? so i cant figure out how to set up another account. i even tried uninstalling and re