Talik asked:
It seems that the solution to accepting users from localhost is to create a copy of the user with @’localhost’ (in addition to [email protected]’%’). I’m trying very hard to understand the logic here, because it seems kind of bat-nuts crazy that the ‘any host’ wildcard, ‘%’, wouldn’t also accept localhost connections. Creating a second user isn’t very practical when dealing with a large number of users. If a user changes their own password, it would then leave the other one unaffected.
Is there any sort of workaround to allowing [email protected]’%’ to accept localhost connections?
My answer:
You need to remove the anonymous users, as MySQL’s pattern matching will match them first.
Run the mysql_secure_installation script or remove them manually.
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