Try : grant usage on ping.* to 'pinger'@'localhost'; On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 10:51:33 -0500, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazquez@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 07:14 -0700, Collins Richey wrote: > > I can't use normal users, because they're all locked down with > > passwords, so I've inserted a dummy user 'pinger' and modified the > > script accordingly to eliminate this error message. The question is, > > and I've found nothing in google, what are the minimum privileges to > > give a user to enable 'ping' permissions? I did 'grant usage on *.* to > > 'pinger'@'localhost';'. Could I have granted privilege for only one > > database, for example? > > I think the ability to connect to the server is plenty. > > -- > Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazquez@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > http://centos.ivazquez.net/ > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > >