Yup. amazingly enough the password entry in the user table was empty.
I have no idea how this was empty. I am the only admin on the machine and I
didn't do it.
mysqladmin Ver 7.11 Distrib 3.22.22, for pc-linux-gnu on i686
TCX Datakonsult AB, by Monty
Server version 3.22.22
Protocol version 10
Connection Localhost via UNIX socket
UNIX socket /tmp/mysql.sock
Uptime: 38 days 4 hours 15 min 17 sec
Threads: 28 Questions: 150444228 Slow queries: 0 Opens: 66 Flush
tables: 1 Open tables: 62
Is there known security bugs in this system.
Regards,
Dave.
At 09:18 14/09/2001 -0700, Adams, Bill TQO wrote:
>Dave McNicholl wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > I have had a mysql database for a few years now. It is used for
> auth
> > against apache using mod_auth_mysql. My apache conf has the username and
> > password in it. These have not changed for some time.
> > Now when I use mysqldump -u username -p mysql and supply the
> correct
> > password I get.
> > mysqldump: Got error: 1045: Access denied for user: 'username@localhost'
> > (Using password: YES)
> > It is the same for mysql command line.
>
>Have you tried specifiying the host?
>mysqldump dbname -u username -pPassword -h your.host.name
>
>--Bill
>
>
>
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