Hey all,

I’ve been having some trouble creating a mysql user that can connect to the database from localhost. It’s always been a straight forward thing to do in the past, so its time for a sanity check, if you guys don’t mind.

Ok, so here’s the actual command with actual simplified password that I’m using. It’s on localhost so I don’t think it’s a security threat unless someone gets access to the box itself.

mysql> grant all privileges on ftp.* to ‘proftpd’@’localhost’ identified by
‘testpattern’;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.35 sec)

Here’s what it looks like when you select it from the mysql database:

mysql> select User,Host,Password from user where User like ‘proftpd’;
+———+———–+——————————————-+
| User | Host | Password |
+———+———–+——————————————-+
| proftpd | localhost | *2EE931CA39652F1ED359A3A36961511B387E74A9 |
+———+———–+——————————————-+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

And here’s my attempt to connect with the password shown. Which is something I don’t usually do, but am doing now to demonstrate what’s going on:

[root@ops:~] #mysql -uproftpd -ptestpattern -h localhost ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user ‘proftpd’@’localhost’ (using password: YES)

OK, so as I’ve said this should work!

The database I’m trying to give the user access to does also exist:

mysql> show databases like ‘ftp’;
+—————-+
| Database (ftp) |
+—————-+
| ftp |
+—————-+
1 row in set (0.34 sec)

I checked the error log for mysql and didn’t find any clues there:

[root@ops:~] #grep log /etc/my.cnf log-error=/var/log/mysqld.log

[root@ops:~] #tail /var/log/mysqld.log InnoDB: Restoring possible half-written data pages from the doublewrite InnoDB: buffer…
150329 13:30:34 InnoDB: Waiting for the background threads to start
150329 13:30:35 InnoDB: 5.5.42 started; log sequence number 6071094973
150329 13:30:35 [Note] Server hostname (bind-address): ‘0.0.0.0’; port: 3306
150329 13:30:35 [Note] – ‘0.0.0.0’ resolves to ‘0.0.0.0’;
150329 13:30:35 [Note] Server socket created on IP: ‘0.0.0.0’.
150329 13:30:35 [Note] Event Scheduler: Loaded 0 events
150329 13:30:35 [Note] /usr/libexec/mysqld: ready for connections. Version: ‘5.5.42’ socket: ‘/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock’ port: 3306 MySQL
Community Server (GPL) by Remi

Does anybody out there have any idea why this isn’t working?

Thanks Tim