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Asked: 2026-06-16T17:49:41+00:00

I am working on a project for a client, and instead of using my

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I am working on a project for a client, and instead of using my usual ‘root’ SQL password, I needed to create a new User/Password with specific access rights. I looke up how to do this and found that I should use the following:

CREATE USER 'AppSrv'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'some_pass';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON some_db.* TO 'AppSrv'@'%' WITH GRANT OPTION;

When I run select * from mysql.user; I can see that the user has been added to the table, however when using PDO or PHPMyAdmin I get an error stating: Access denied for user 'AppSrv'@'localhost'

I have created users in the past without a problem, and am not sure why it is now not working. I have attempted rebooting the SQL server as well with no avail.

Running:

Linux version 3.2.0-24-virtual (buildd@crested) (gcc version 4.6.3 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.3-1ubuntu5) )
MySQL v5.5.28-0ubuntu0.12.04.3 – (Ubuntu)

What could be a possible fix to create new users for my SQL Server?

EDIT

I have also tried using PHPMyAdmin to create the user, and even that fails when trying to login.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Create the account with @’localhost’:

    CREATE USER 'AppSrv'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'some_pass';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON some_db.* TO 'AppSrv'@'localhost' WITH GRANT OPTION;

    Otherwise the anonymous-user account for localhost that is created by mysql_install_db would take precedence – see mysql doc adding users or access denied

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