Enable remote MySQL connection: ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user

Question

MySQL 5.1.31 running on Windows XP.

From the local MySQL server (192.168.233.142) I can connect as root as follows:

>mysql --host         


        

Answer 1

I was struggling with remote login to MYSQL for my Amazon EC2 Linux instance. Found the solution was to make sure my security group included an inbound rule for MySQL port 3306 to include my IP address (or 0.0.0.0/0 for anywhere). Immediately could connect remotely as soon as I added this rule.

Answer 2

You have to put this as root:

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'USERNAME'@'IP' IDENTIFIED BY 'PASSWORD' with grant option;

;

where IP is the IP you want to allow access, USERNAME is the user you use to connect, and PASSWORD is the relevant password.

If you want to allow access from any IP just put % instead of your IP

and then you only have to put

FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

Or restart mysql server and that's it.

Answer 3

The user/host combination may have been created without password.

I was assuming that when adding a new host for an existing user (using a GUI app), the existing password would also be used for the new user/host combination.

I could log in with

mysql -u username -p PASSWORD

locally, but not from IPADDRESS with

mysql -u --host=HOST -p PASSWORD

(I could actually log in from IPADDRESS without using a password)

mysql -u --host=HOST

Setting the password allowed access:

set password for '<USER>'@'<IPADDRESS>' = '<PASSWORD>';

Answer 4

By default in MySQL server remote access is disabled. The process to provide a remote access to user is.

1. Go to my sql bin folder or add it to PATH
2. Login to root by mysql -uroot -proot (or whatever the root password is.)
3. On success you will get mysql>
4. Provide grant access all for that user.

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GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'username'@'IP' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';

Here IP is IP address for which you want to allow remote access, if we put % any IP address can access remotely.

Example:

C:\Users\UserName> cd C:\Program Files (x86)\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.0\bin

C:\Program Files (x86)\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.0\bin>mysql -uroot -proot

mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'root'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'root';
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.27 sec)

mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.25 sec)

This for a other user.

mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'testUser'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'testUser';
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

Hope this will help

Answer 5

In my case I was trying to connect to a remote mysql server on cent OS. After going through a lot of solutions (granting all privileges, removing ip bindings,enabling networking) problem was still not getting solved.

As it turned out, while looking into various solutions,I came across iptables, which made me realize mysql port 3306 was not accepting connections.

Here is a small note on how I checked and resolved this issue.

• Checking if port is accepting connections:

  telnet (mysql server ip) [portNo]

• Adding ip table rule to allow connections on the port:

  iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 3306 -j ACCEPT

• Would not recommend this for production environment, but if your iptables are not configured properly, adding the rules might not still solve the issue. In that case following should be done:

  service iptables stop

Hope this helps.

Answer 6

Do you have a firewall ? make sure that port 3306 is open.

On windows , by default mysql root account is created that is permitted to have access from localhost only unless you have selected the option to enable access from remote machines during installation .

creating or update the desired user with '%' as hostname .

example :

CREATE USER 'krish'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';