[mythtv-users] Update: root user created, but unusable: errors 1044 and 1045.

[Greg Oliver]

On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 7:17 PM A. F. Cano <afc54 at comcast.net> wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 12:05:15AM +0000, John Pilkington wrote:
> > On 14/01/2021 22:05, A. F. Cano wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 02:31:28PM -0500, A. F. Cano wrote:
> > > > Hello everyone,
> > > >
> > > > Latest update: Now mysql is totally inaccessible, so the mythtv
> server doesn't
> > > > even start.  I left all the details of how I got to this point for
> > > > completeness.
> > >
> > > That is still the case, I did manage to create the root user but I
> can't
> > > do anything with it.  At least I can start mysql -u root but nothing
> > > else works.  I also re-created the mythtv user.   Even flush privileges
> > > doesn't work.  Obviously just re-creating the root user wasn't enough,
> > > how do I give it the privileges it needs?
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > > Augustine
> >
> > I'm far from being a DB guru and I'm reluctant to jump in here, but last
> > July I had DB access problems which seemed to arise after an upgrade from
> > trying to follow conflicting sets of instructions relating to 'root'
>  With
> > guidance from Bill Meek I was able to recover and it's just possible that
> > you might find it helpful too.  It's here, in the last couple of posts in
> > this thread - and FWIW it was a Fedora box.  I think the real meat is at
> > "Here's the entire set of commands:"
> >
> > https://lists.archive.carbon60.com/mythtv/users/632838#632838
>
> I think my problem is much more basic.  I can do absolutely nothing.  At
> first I thought (from what I've read so far) that somehow I was logged
> in as the anonymous user:
>
> MariaDB [(none)]> select user(), current_user();
> +----------------+----------------+
> | user()         | current_user() |
> +----------------+----------------+
> | root at localhost | root at localhost |
> +----------------+----------------+
> 1 row in set (0.000 sec)
>

Your usernames should never include the hosts.  I guess you did not put the
hostname in ''s when you added them.  You may be able to fix them by just
updating the user table - not sure.

update user set user = 'root' where user like 'root%';

(use at your own risk) - my user table -

MariaDB [mysql]> select host, user from user;
+-----------------+--------+
| host            | user   |
+-----------------+--------+
| 127.0.0.1       | root   |
| 192.168.100.%   | mythtv |
| 192.168.100.151 | mythtv |
| 192.168.99.%    | mythtv |
| ::1             | root   |
| localhost       | root   |
+-----------------+--------+
6 rows in set (0.00 sec)



> I'm not quite sure what this indicates, but I don't see ''@localhost
> (the anonymous user) and yet the current user I'm logged in as
> (using mysql -u root) doesn't let me do anything:
>
> MariaDB [(none)]> use mysql;
> ERROR 1044 (42000): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' to database
> 'mysql'
> MariaDB [(none)]> use mythtv;
> ERROR 1044 (42000): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' to database
> 'mythtv
>
> MariaDB [(none)]> grant all privileges on mythconverg.* to 'mythtv'@'localhost'
> identified by 'xxxx' with grant option;
> ERROR 1044 (42000): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' to database
> 'mythconverg'
>
> MariaDB [(none)]> grant all privileges on *.* to 'root'@'localhost'
> identified by 'xxxx' with grant option;
> ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using
> password: YES)
>
> 'xxxx' are the passwords that used to work before (in the case of
> mythtv) and the new one I've just created for root at localhost, in case
> having an empty password was the issue.  '' also gave the same results
> (for root).
>
> MariaDB [(none)]> update mysql.user set password=password('') where
> user='root';
> ERROR 1142 (42000): UPDATE command denied to user 'root'@'localhost' for
> table 'user'
> MariaDB [(none)]> flush privileges;
> ERROR 1227 (42000): Access denied; you need (at least one of) the RELOAD
> privilege(s) for this operation
>
> Does anybody know what I can do to overcome this?  Thanks...
>
> Augustine
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