Grant he is trying to login as that user then drop the user he logged in as
Martin Gainty ______________________________________________ Verzicht und Vertraulichkeitanmerkung/Note de déni et de confidentialité Diese Nachricht ist vertraulich. Sollten Sie nicht der vorgesehene Empfaenger sein, so bitten wir hoeflich um eine Mitteilung. Jede unbefugte Weiterleitung oder Fertigung einer Kopie ist unzulaessig. Diese Nachricht dient lediglich dem Austausch von Informationen und entfaltet keine rechtliche Bindungswirkung. Aufgrund der leichten Manipulierbarkeit von E-Mails koennen wir keine Haftung fuer den Inhalt uebernehmen. Ce message est confidentiel et peut être privilégié. Si vous n'êtes pas le destinataire prévu, nous te demandons avec bonté que pour satisfaire informez l'expéditeur. N'importe quelle diffusion non autorisée ou la copie de ceci est interdite. Ce message sert à l'information seulement et n'aura pas n'importe quel effet légalement obligatoire. Étant donné que les email peuvent facilement être sujets à la manipulation, nous ne pouvons accepter aucune responsabilité pour le contenu fourni. > Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 22:39:50 +1000 > From: gxal...@gmail.com > To: carlosw...@gmail.com > CC: mysql@lists.mysql.com > Subject: Re: Unable To Remove User > > Carlos Williams wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 11:36 PM, mos <mo...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > >> Why don't you just say "Drop User carlos"? > >> Also are you logged in as root? > > > > In my original message to the board I demonstrated the error I get on > > my server when I attempt to run the 'drop user 'carlos'@'localhost'; > > command. Why can't I remove this user from MySQL? > > [ snip ] > > > Database changed > > mysql> select User, Host from user; > > +--------+------------+ > > | User | Host | > > +--------+------------+ > > | carlos | localhost > > | > > | root | localhost | > > +--------+------------+ > > 2 rows in set (0.00 sec) > > > Carlos, is this output exactly as it appeared when you ran the command? > Specifically, that extra carriage return after localhost for the user carlos? > I wonder if the host value is actually localhost followed by a carriage > return, which is why it isn't found when you try to drop the user using the > 'carlos'@'localhost' value. Try this select statement to confirm: > > select user, host from user where host = 'localhost'; > > If you don't see carlos returned as a user, this is potentially the problem. > If that's the case, use Claudio's suggestion to remove the user manually. > > Ciao > Fuzzy > :-) > > ------------------------------------------------ > Dazed and confused about technology for 20 years > http://fuzzydata.wordpress.com/ > > -- > MySQL General Mailing List > For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql > To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=mgai...@hotmail.com > _________________________________________________________________ Insert movie times and more without leaving Hotmail®. http://windowslive.com/Tutorial/Hotmail/QuickAdd?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Tutorial_QuickAdd_062009
