[rt-users] MySql 'not allowed to connect to host...']

[Fred.Purdue]

Actually Ron you're pretty close.  I did set it up to allow other hosts
to connect to it, but I didn't notice that you need to setup different
USERS to be allowed to connect from different hosts.

Once I fixed that it worked like a breeze.

Fred


On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 13:16, Ron Alexander wrote:

> mysql.com/doc/en has pretty thorough docu for most problems. Just search 
> on what you think, like 'user privileges'. You will be amazed!!
> --------------------------------------
> http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Adding_users.html
> 
> You can add new users by issuing |GRANT| statements:
> 
> shell> mysql --user=root mysql
> mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO monty at localhost
>     ->     IDENTIFIED BY 'some_pass' WITH GRANT OPTION;
> mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO monty@"%"
>     ->     IDENTIFIED BY 'some_pass' WITH GRANT OPTION;
> mysql> GRANT RELOAD,PROCESS ON *.* TO admin at localhost;
> mysql> GRANT USAGE ON *.* TO dummy at localhost;
> 
> These |GRANT| statements set up three new users:
> 
> |monty|
>     A full superuser who can connect to the server from anywhere, but
>     who must use a password |'some_pass'| to do so. Note that we must
>     issue|GRANT| statements for both |monty at localhost| and|monty@"%"|.
>     If we don't add the entry with |localhost|, the anonymous user entry
>     for |localhost| that is created by|mysql_install_db| will take
>     precedence when we connect from the local host, because it has a
>     more specific |Host| field value and thus comes earlier in the
> |user| table sort order. |admin|
>     A user who can connect from |localhost| without a password and who
>     is granted the |RELOAD| and |PROCESS| administrative privileges.
>     This allows the user to execute the |mysqladmin reload|, |mysqladmin
>     refresh|, and |mysqladmin flush-*| commands, as well as|mysqladmin
>     processlist| . No database-related privileges are granted. (They can
> be granted later by issuing additional |GRANT| statements.) |dummy|
>     A user who can connect without a password, but only from the local
>     host. The global privileges are all set to |'N'|—the |USAGE|
>     privilege type allows you to create a user with no privileges. It is
> assumed that you will grant database-specific privileges later.
> 
> You can also add the same user access information directly by issuing 
> |INSERT| statements and then telling the server to reload the grant tables:
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> >  
> >
> >        [root at helpdesk fpurdue]# mysql -u rt_user -h helpdesk rt2
> >        -ppassword
> >        
> >        ERROR 1130: Host 'helpdesk.corp.newoppinc.org' is not allowed to
> >        connect to this MySQL server
> >        
> >        [root at helpdesk fpurdue]# mysql -u rt_user -h localhost rt2
> >        -ppassword
> >        
> >        Reading table information for completion of table and column
> >        names
> >        You can turn off this feature to get a quicker startup with -A
> >        
> >        Welcome to the MySQL monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
> >        [...etc]
> >
> >The problem isn't being able to connect to mysql from the localhost, the
> >problem is connecting over the network...
> >
> >  
> >
> > -- Fred.Purdue <Fred.Purdue at Pobox.com>
> >

-- 
Fred.Purdue <Fred.Purdue at Pobox.com>
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