Question

I’m in the process of learning PHP and MYSQL. I created a new user with the privileges select, insert, update, delete, create, alter, index, and drop and they are database specific. When I try to have this user log in I keep getting

ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user ‘bookorama’@’localhost’ (using password: YES).

I can log in as root user and I’m not sure what I need to do to be able to let this user use the database. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

In the case that you’ve executed the GRANT command correctly, execute the command “FLUSH PRIVILEGES;” and try again.

If it fails again you’ll have to check your GRANT command: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/grant.html

An example:

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON databasename.* TO 'bookorama'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'yourpassword';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;