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Ignoring user
Error If you get the following error:
Found wrong password for user: 'some_user@some_host'; ignoring user
this means that when mysqld
was started or when it reloaded the
permissions tables, it found an entry in the user
table with
an invalid password. As a result, the entry is simply ignored by the
permission system.
Possible causes of and fixes for this problem:
mysqld
with an old
user
table.
You can check this by executing mysqlshow mysql user
to see whether
the password field is shorter than 16 characters. If so, you can correct this
condition by running the scripts/add_long_password
script.
mysqld
with the --old-protocol
option.
Update the user in the user
table with a new password or
restart mysqld
with --old-protocol
.
user
table without using the
PASSWORD()
function. Use mysql
to update the user in the
user
table with a new password. Make sure to use the PASSWORD()
function:
mysql> UPDATE user SET password=PASSWORD('your password') -> WHERE user='XXX'; |