John,
Thursday, February 28, 2002, 1:56:29 PM, you wrote:

>>JH> i like to have a DB per user so i do
>>
>>JH> GRANT ALL ON username.* TO username@"%" IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
>>
>>JH> This is fine, until the user tries to connect from localhost :(
>>JH> As i read the manual i think the %-wildcard includes localhost .
>>JH> But i can not get it to work that way :(
>>JH> My users have to have access from localhost and remote hosts to this DB.
>>
>>'%' means that you can connect via TCP/IP;
JD> '%' is a wild card character meaning any

Correct, but '%' is used only for TCP/IP connections and not for unix
domain sockets.

According to the documentation:

  If you can't figure out why you receive Access denied message remove 
  all entries that have Host values containing wild cards (entries that 
  contain `%' or `_') from the user table. The very common error is to
  insert a new entry with Host='%' and User='some user', implying that 
  this will allow you to specify the localhost for connection from the same
  machine. The reason this doesn't work is that the default
  privileges include a Host='localhost' and User='' entry.
  Because that entry has a Host value 'localhost' that is more
  specific than '%', it is used in preference to the new entry when
  connecting from localhost! The correct procedure is to insert a
  second entry with Host='localhost' and User='some_user', or to
  remove the entry with Host='localhost' and User=''.

Maybe you will want to take a look at where the cite is from:
      http://www.mysql.com/doc/A/c/Access_denied.html 

>>'localhost' means connection via Unix socket.
JD> Windows does not have UNIX sockets so what does localhost mean on Windows

On all Windows platforms MySQL uses TCP/IP and named pipes for local
connections on Windows NT/2000. Look at:
      http://www.mysql.com/doc/W/i/Windows_running.html

>>JH>                         Joerg




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