You still need to flush the privileges. Changes in permissions are not
automatically committed. Also you should add the host to the username.

grant all on *.* to [EMAIL PROTECTED] identified by 'some_password' with
grant option;
flush privileges;

Jamie

On Sun, 2003-08-03 at 09:52, Todd Cary wrote:
> I have installed Red Hat 9 and it installs MySQL.  After logging on as
> root, I did the following:
> 
> mysql
> mysql> use mysql;
> mysql> grant all
> -> on *
> -> to todd indentified by 'my_password'
> -> with grant option;
> 
> I then log out of mysql and log out as root.  Logged in as "todd" I
> type the following:
> 
> mysql -u todd -p
> 
> I type in my password and I get the following error:
> 
> Acess denied for [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> When I was in mysql as root, "select * from user" has "todd" listed.
> 
> What have I missed?
> 
> Todd 
> -- 
> 


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