Grant permissions error on MySQL

Question

I'm new my MySQL admin from the command line and typically use Phpmyadmin or MySql workbench to admin machines. I'm getting a problem while trying to grant a user access to DBs and hoping I could get some help to figure it out.

 [root@server20039]# mysql -u root -p Enter password: Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g. Your MySQL connection id is 21 Server version: 5.5.29 MySQL Community Server (GPL) Copyright (c) 2000, 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners. Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement. mysql> GRANT ALL ON *.* TO 'maintenance'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'qwerty' WITH GRANT OPTION; ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES) 

Then I tried this and still got the same error

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'root'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'qwerty' WITH GRANT OPTION; 

and this

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'root'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY PASSWORD 'qwerty' WITH GRANT OPTION; FLUSH PRIVILEGES; 

I could really use a hand figuring this out!

Answer 1

Check user:

mysql> SELECT CURRENT_USER(); +----------------+ | CURRENT_USER() | +----------------+ | root@localhost | +----------------+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec) 

Check privileges:

mysql> SHOW GRANTS; +----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Grants for root@localhost | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'root'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY PASSWORD '*03465AB87C2B44D98228458669A91479C2BAAA6C' WITH GRANT OPTION | | GRANT PROXY ON ''@'' TO 'root'@'localhost' WITH GRANT OPTION | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ 2 rows in set (0.00 sec) 

If you have recently updated MySQL run: mysql_upgrade and then restart MySQL daemon.