mysql : Access denied for user

[BillsCentOS at triad.rr.com (William L. Maltby)]

On Sat, 2006-05-20 at 07:48 -0400, Alfred von Campe wrote:
> On May 20, 2006, at 7:33, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> 
> ><snip>

> > Put the localhost name first in the line, like this:
> >
> >
> > 127.0.0.1 localhost xxxxx yyyy.yyy
> 
> I've seen this cause many problems with other tools as well (not just  
> mysql).  I always thought it was wrong to include the actual hostname  
> in the localhost line, and it's one of the first thing I change after  
> building a system.  Does any one else think it's a good idea to  
> include the hostname in this line?

If you mean

    127.0.0.1 mynodename ...

instead of

   127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain

for example?