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Asked: 2026-05-23T20:32:32+00:00

Running show grants; indicates that I am logged in as a user with all

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Running show grants; indicates that I am logged in as a user with all privileges on a database.

Running show table status; results in an error. And the error does not show the username I am logged in as!

It’s as if, for this command, mysql forgets who I am. Other select statements work fine. Can anyone explain this? How to fix? Thanks.

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mysql> show grants;
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Grants for php@localhost                                                                                            |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'php'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY PASSWORD '*8F5FF90079BC601F8EA7C148475658E65A0C029D' |
| GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON `sunflower_work`.* TO 'php'@'localhost'                                                     |
| GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON `news_demo`.* TO 'php'@'localhost'                                                          |
| GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON `news_base`.* TO 'php'@'localhost'                                                          |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
4 rows in set (0.00 sec)

mysql> show table status from sunflower_work;
ERROR 1143 (42000): SELECT command denied to user ''@'%' for column 'uid' in table 'users'
mysql>

update… as suggested by Tomalak, I deleted the user and recreated with fuller privileges and no password. Still the problem persists. Now it looks like this:

mysql> show grants;
+--------------------------------------------------+
| Grants for php@localhost                         |
+--------------------------------------------------+
| GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'php'@'localhost' |
+--------------------------------------------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

mysql> show table status;
ERROR 1143 (42000): SELECT command denied to user ''@'%' for column 'uid' in table 'users'
mysql>
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  1. Editorial Team

    The issue is probably that you have VIEWS in your database. The views are probably created with specific rights.

    As you can tell by your error message, it complains about a different user than the one you are logged in is. This is because for a view you can specify how to determine what rights the view has to look at data.

    When you go to your database, try typing:

    SHOW FULL TABLES IN sunflower_work WHERE TABLE_TYPE NOT LIKE '%table%';

    Then you may wish to look into the rights of the specific views that are there.

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