Access Denied: GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES

[neatgadgets]

I have been trying to perform the following command but I get an error:

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'usernamehere'@'localhost' WITH GRANT OPTION;

error is

ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES)

I am doing this via putty directly on the virtual machine logged in as root

I have tried the solution mentioned by others to stop mysql and start it with the skip grant table option, then changing the password, flushing privileges and restarting mysql. Still same issue.

Any ideas?

 

[vacunita]

Are you sure root has the correct privileges from 'localhost'? Looks like root isn't even being allowed to run the query.

Can you use the Mysql Workbench to check privileges?

MYSQL is very particular about privileges, each user has different privileges depending on location. These can vary even between a direct access through the mysql command interface and an application on the same machine.




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