Why is GRANT not working in MySQL?

Question

I\'m scratching my head on this one as I see a ton of helper websites showing how to create MySQL users and grant privileges but for some reason it just does not work for me

Answer 1

This should work:

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON database_name.* TO 'username'@'localhost';

Answer 2

what you are selecting are the global privileges. you are however giving database (and host, but that doesnt matter) specific privileges.

GRANT INSERTON wordpress.* TO 'www'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'basic';

theese permissions are stored in the db table.

just to point you in the right direction:

SHOW GRANTS FOR 'www'@'localhost'

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/show-grants.html

Answer 3

You need to look at mysql.db or mysql.tables_priv tables if you need to select the Y or N if you are trying to do some restrictions of from what page a user can edit or insert or delete... This tables are automatically updated with the Ys and Ns as they are solely designed to show what privileges a user has on tables or columns as opposed to mysql.user whose purpose is to show that there is a certain user who can login(create connection) to a database.

Answer 4

That's not where the most user GRANTed rights are stored - try

SHOW GRANTS FOR 'www'@'localhost'

to see database-specific permissions instead. (A grant would only show up in the user table if it was for all databases.)

Here's a (rather old) step-by-step detail of how permissions are stored in MySQL - I don't think things have changed much.