This isn't the appropriate list to direct this question to. I suggest one of the MySQL help lists or a careful reading of the documentation, which tells you exactly what you need to know. -- Peter Ellis - pellis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web Design and Development Consultant naturalaxis | http://www.naturalaxis.com/ On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 14:43 -0400, AceZero2790@xxxxxxx wrote: > Ok, thanks to many people's help, I have managed to install MySQL right and > login as root with no password. However, MySQL will not allow to log in to my > databases as root. Is this normal, because when I try it brings back the old > access denies: root@localhost thing. > > So I thought maybe I just have to figure out how to create accounts, and then > configure them to be all access. I have read the manual on creating > accounts, but for some reason it doesn't work. Here is how it goes: > > I access mysql.exe and put in this: > > mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'user'@'localhost' > > > Then I hit enter. It starts me off with an indented down arrow and I finish > the GRANT command. > > -> IDENTIFIED BY 'password' WITH GRANT OPTION; > > Then I hit enter. IT gives me another down arrow. I hit enter again and again > and again and all it does is give me more indented down arrows... What now? -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
