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Asked: 2026-05-19T21:56:00+00:00

Now I’m no MySQL pro, but I’ve been using it for a good 5-6

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Now I’m no MySQL pro, but I’ve been using it for a good 5-6 years and I’ve never come across this:

  • I log into my server via SSH
  • I log into MySQL via mysql -u root -pSUPER_SECRET_PASSWORD
  • I write: CREATE USER 'magical_username'@'locahost' IDENTIFIED BY 'super_magical_password';

Now this is where it gets weird. I expect the query to work and I can go about granting permissions, but, I get this instead:

ERROR 1064 (42000): You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'USER 'magical_username'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'super_magical_password' at line 1

Any ideas?

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  1. Editorial Team

    This isn’t really an answer but a solution to the problem:

    It turns out that the magical sysadmin, in all his wisdom, thought it was a good idea to copy over MySQL’s raw DB files rather than doing a dump and import. This, coupled with incorrect permissions and MySQL versions, meant that MySQL had a big issue with users and granting, but serving the data was fine (that’s why it seemed really weird).

    Long story short: rebuilt the box and imported the data the correct way 🙂

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