Mermaids have the same probability of fixing your permission problems, but people continue believing in the FLUSH PRIVILEGES myth.I see suggesting the usage of FLUSH PRIVILEGES every time someone writes a tutorial or a solution to a problem regarding creating a new account or providing different privileges. For example, the top post on /r/mysql as of the writing of these lines, “MySQL:The user specified as a definer does not exist (error 1449)-Solutions” has multiple guilty cases of this (Update: the user has corrected those lines after I posted this article).

It is not my intention to bash that post, but I have seen …

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This post is for educational purposes only and no responsibility will be taken if you execute any of the commands. You mess it, you fix it!

Replacing a password for a user on MySQL can be done in at least four ways. Three ways at least.

1. set password for ‘user’@'host’=password(‘abc’);

2. grant usage on *.* to ‘user’@'host’ identified by ‘abc’;

3. update mysql.user set password=password(‘abc’) where user=’user’ and host=’host’;

mysql Wed Mar  9 14:27:17 2011 > set password for 'dc'@'%' = password('d');
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

mysql Wed Mar  9 14:27:39 2011 > show grants for 'dc'@'%';
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| Grants for dc@%                                                                                   | …