I want to begin writing queries in MySQL.
show grants
shows:
+--------------------------------------+
| Grants for @localhost |
+--------------------------------------+
| GRANT USAGE ON *.* TO ''@'localhost' |
+--------------------------------------+
I do not have any user-id but when I want to make a user I don’t have privilleges, also I don’t know how to make privileges when even I don’t have one user!
mysql> CREATE USER 'parsa'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'parsa';
ERROR 1227 (42000): Access denied; you need (at least one of) the CREATE USER pr
ivilege(s) for this operation
I tried to sign in as root:
mysql> mysql -u root -p;
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 'mysql
-u root -p' at line 1
mysql> mysql -u root -p root;
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 'mysql
-u root -p root' at line 1
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asked Jan 12, 2012 at 16:44
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No, you should run mysql -u root -p
in bash, not at the MySQL command-line.
If you are in mysql, you can exit by typing exit.
answered Jan 12, 2012 at 16:58
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You may need to set up a root account for your MySQL database:
In the terminal type:
mysqladmin -u root password 'root password goes here'
And then to invoke the MySQL client:
mysql -h localhost -u root -p
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answered Aug 12, 2012 at 11:16
soleshoesoleshoe
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I was brought here by a different problem.
Whenever I tried to login, i got that message because instead of authenticating correctly I logged in as anonymous user. The solution to my problem was:
To see which user you are, and whose permissions you have:
select user(), current_user();
To delete the pesky anonymous user:
drop user ''@'localhost';
answered May 22, 2013 at 8:50
Lefteris ELefteris E
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This is something to do with user permissions. Giving proper grants will solve this issue.
Step [1]: Open terminal and run this command
$ mysql -uroot -p
Output [1]:
This should give you mysql prompt shown below
Step [2]:
mysql> CREATE USER 'parsa'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'your_password';
mysql> grant all privileges on *.* to 'parsa'@'localhost';
Syntax:
mysql> grant all privileges on `database_name`.`table_name` to 'user_name'@'hostname';
Note:
- hostname can be IP address, localhost, 127.0.0.1
- In
database_name
/table_name
, * means all databases- In
hostname
, to specify all hosts use ‘%’
Step [3]: Get out of current mysql prompt by either entering quit
/ exit
command or press Ctrl+D
.
Step [4]: Login to your new user
$ mysql -uparsa -pyour_password
Step [5]: Create the database
mysql> create database `database_name`;
answered Jan 23, 2018 at 9:15
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You might want to try the full login command:
mysql -h host -u root -p
where host would be 127.0.0.1
.
Do this just to make sure cooperation exists.
Using mysql -u root -p
allows me to do a a lot of database searching, but refuses any database creation due to a path setting.
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answered Jun 23, 2012 at 4:46
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If you are in a MySQL
shell, exit it by typing exit, which will return you to the command prompt.
Now start MySQL
by using exactly the following command:
sudo mysql -u root -p
If your username is something other than root, replace ‘root’ in the above command with your username:
sudo mysql -u <your-user-name> -p
It will then ask you the MySQL
account/password, and your MySQL
won’t show any access privilege issue then on.
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answered Feb 26, 2014 at 5:49
Kshitij MittalKshitij Mittal
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First, if you are unfamiliar with the command line, try using phpmyadmin from your webbrowser. This will make sure you actually have a mysql database created and a username.
This is how you connect from the command line (bash):
mysql -h hostname -u username -p database_name
For example:
fabio@crunchbang ~ $ mysql -h 127.0.0.1 -u fabio -p fabiodb
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answered Dec 22, 2012 at 22:44
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connect mysql with sudo & gives permission for the necessary user using,
sudo mysql -u user;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON database_name.* TO 'user'@'localhost';
answered Apr 20, 2021 at 5:09
@Nickparsa … you have 2 issues:
1). mysql -uroot -p
should be typed in bash (also known as your terminal) not in MySQL command-line. You fix this error by typing
exit
in your MySQL command-line. Now you are back in your bash/terminal command-line.
2). You have a syntax error:
mysql -uroot -p;
the semicolon in front of -p needs to go. The correct syntax is:
mysql -uroot -p
type the correct syntax in your bash commandline. Enter a password if you have one set up; else just hit the enter button. You should get a response that is similar to this:
Hope this helps!
1
Most Developers log-in to server(I assume you r having user-name and password for mysql database) then from Bash they switch to mysql> prompt
then use the command below(which doesn’t work
mysql -h localhost -u root -p
What needs to be done is use the above command in the bash prompt—> on doing so it will ask for password if given it will take directly to mysql prompt and
then database, table can be created one by one
I faced similar deadlock so sharing the experience
answered Jul 9, 2013 at 14:03
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I had the command correct per above answers, what I missed on was on the Workbench, where we mention ‘Limit Connectivity from Host’ for the user, it defaults to «%» — change this to «localhost» and it connects fine thereafter!
answered Feb 24, 2016 at 15:35
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I’m using roles to confer least privilege on my database application users. I kept getting ‘ERROR 1044 (42000): Access denied for user…’ until I RTFM and discovered I had to give each user a default role(s) in order their account could be authenticated when they logged in.
#create a role
CREATE ROLE 'rolename';
#give necessary privileges to role
GRANT INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, SELECT ON database.table TO 'rolename';
#create user
CREATE USER 'username'@'host' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
#give the user a role(s)
GRANT 'rolename' TO 'username'@'host';
#set the user's default otherwise it's ERROR 1044
SET DEFAULT ROLE 'rolename' FOR 'username'@'host';
answered Apr 6, 2022 at 15:08
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I developed my website, but many pages that access the database throw the error ‘SQLSTATE 42000 1044 access denied for user’. Can you help!
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Website owners often face this error due to insufficient database privileges, typo errors in username/password, and more.
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‘SQLSTATE 42000 1044 access denied for user’ – What this means?
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Website owners usually face this error when MySQL disallow access to a database.
For instance, the complete error message looks like this:
SQLSTATE[42000] [1044] Access denied for user 'test'@'localhost' to database 'test_database'
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cPanel > Databases > MySQL databases > MySQL users > Current users.
MySQL databases option in cPanel
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Here, our Hosting Engineers grant the user, proper privileges over the database to correct this problem.
For example, in cPanel servers, we assign access privileges to a user from here:
cPanel > MySQL databases > Current databases >Privileged users > Click on the database user
How to set database user privileges in cPanel
On plain servers, we assign the user privileges from command line.
For example, we use the below command to grant all privileges to the user, ‘test’@’localhost to the database ‘test_database’.
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON test_database.* TO 'test'@'localhost';
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delete from user where User=' ';
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Website developers see this error when trying to access the database using PDO.
PDOException: SQLSTATE[42000] [1044] Access denied for user 'test'@'localhost' to database 'test_database' in lock_may_be_available() (line 164 of /home/test/public_html/includes/lock.inc).
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This page will assist you with troubleshooting a MySQL – 1044 “Access Denied” Error Message.
Troubleshooting the MySQL 1044 “Access Denied” Error
When you import a database using phpMyAdmin, generally you are importing a text file with a .sql extension.
Here is a section of code that may be in a .sql database backup. In this example, the database we are trying to import is named Employees.
-- phpMyAdmin SQL Dump -- version 2.11.9.5 -- https://www.phpmyadmin.net -- -- Host: localhost -- Generation Time: Apr 02, 2010 at 08:01 AM -- Server version: 5.0.81 -- PHP Version: 5.2.6 SET SQL_MODE="NO_AUTO_VALUE_ON_ZERO"; CREATE DATABASE employees; -- -------------------------------------------------------- -- -- Table structure for table `employee_list` -- CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `employee_list` ( `first_name` text NOT NULL, `last_name` text NOT NULL ) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;
When using phpMyAdmin to attempt to import such a file, you will receive an error message similar to:
Error SQL query: CREATE DATABASE employees; MySQL said: Documentation #1044 - Access denied for user 'training'@'localhost' to database 'employees'
In this scenario, my cPanel username is Training. Because of cPanel’s database naming conventions, all database names must begin with the cPanel username followed by an “_”. I cannot create a database named Employees, however I can create a database named Training_employees.
The reason this import failed is because of the following line in the .sql file:
CREATE DATABASE employees
Again, I cannot create a database named employees, however I can create a database named Training_employees. If I change the line that says: CREATE DATABASE so that it creates: training_employees instead of employees it will again fail with the following message:
Error SQL query: CREATE DATABASE training_employees; MySQL said: Documentation #1044 - Access denied for user 'training'@'localhost' to database 'training_employees'
When using cPanel, databases must be created within the cPanel itself. To fix the issue, you will need to:
- Create the: training_employees database within cPanel
- Comment out the: CREATE DATABASE command in my .sql file. To do this, simply change: CREATE DATABASE employees; to — CREATE DATABASE employees; You are simply adding dash dash space to the front of the line to comment it out so that it will not be executed.
- Log into phpMyAdmin, access the training_employees database, and then import as normal.
To login into MySQL as root user, you can use:
mysql -u root -p
and then enter your MySQL password.
To login as another user, you will have to create that user first and grant him privileges.
Create the user using — change newuser
to the username you want and password
to your password of choice.
CREATE USER 'newuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
Sadly, at this point newuser
has no permissions to do anything with the databases.
Therefore the first stage is to grant the user the privileges to do ‘things’.
To grant all privileges (select, create, delete, update, drop, etc) on all databases and tables, run:
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON * . * TO 'newuser'@'localhost';
To grant a specific privilege on a particular database and table, just run:
GRANT [type of privilege] ON [database name].[table name] TO '[username]'@'localhost';
If you ever need to deny or revoke a certain privilege, just run:
REVOKE [type of permission] ON [database name].[table name] FROM '[username]'@'localhost';
Source: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-create-a-new-user-and-grant-permissions-in-mysql
mysqldump: Got error: 1044: Access denied for user ‘username’@’localhost’ to database ‘databasename’ when using LOCK TABLES
I am able to loging properly and able to take full backup from SQLyog Tool but when i am trying to take backup from MySQL Enterprise Workbencg then getting error message.
mysqldump: Got error: 1044: Access denied for user ‘myuserid’@’%’ to
database ‘mydatabasename’ when doing LOCK TABLES
Operation failed with exitcode 2
And MySQL Connection status is ok.
mysql> status;
mysql.exe Ver 14.14 Distrib 5.6.19, for Win32 (x86)
Connection id: 23921 Current database: databasename Current user: user
id is ok here SSL: Not in use Using delimiter: ; Server version:
5.6.17-log MySQL Community Server (GPL) Protocol version: 10 Connection: connection is ok here Server characterset: utf8 Db
characterset: utf8 Client characterset: cp850 Conn. characterset:
cp850 TCP port: 3306 Uptime: 21 days 21 hours 11 min 37 secThreads: 24 Questions: 20500671 Slow queries: 3212 Opens: 121998 Flush
tables: 1 Open tables: 2000 Queries per second avg: 10.842
asked Dec 25, 2014 at 8:07
I found two possible solutions, either:
- your user is missing the
LOCK
privilege, so you should ask your database administrator to grant it to you - run the same
mysqldump
command, simply adding the--single-transaction
flag, eg.mysqldump --single-transaction -u user -p ...
answered May 29, 2015 at 8:32
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A quick workaround is to pass the –-single-transaction option to mysqldump:
$ mysqldump --single-transaction -u user -p DBNAME > backup.sql
Just for sharing, the below article have a good information about the same issue.
mysqldump: 1044 Access denied when using LOCK TABLES
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answered Sep 27, 2018 at 13:48
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IF yours password contains special characters then; the error
mysqldump: Got error: 1045: «Access denied for user ‘root’@’localhost’ (using password: YES)» when trying to connect might occur.
Solution is simple; instead of giving the password in quotes at the time of issuing the command (for example mysql or mysqldump) just use -p. and it would ask to enter the password in terminal.
mysqldump -h localhost -u root --password='password' --add-drop-database --add-drop-table --add-drop-trigger --dump-date --single-transaction --routines --events db > /path/db_name.sql
FYI: I know this is for errors 1045 (and not 1044 using locking tables), but might help.
answered Oct 25, 2021 at 8:34