On 4 August 2010 23:01, Platonides <[email protected]> wrote:
> Benjamin Lees wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Sullivan, James (NIH/CIT) [C]
>> <[email protected]> wrote:

>>> Have the privilege requirements for the database user privileges changed 
>>> from 1.15 to 1.16 for installing mediawiki?  I did not see any mention of 
>>> this in the release notes.

>> Yes, it's in the release notes (though it's buried pretty deep):
>> (bug 20634) The installer-created database user will now have all
>> rights on the database so that upgrades will go more smoothly.

> That should not be run when the user already exists.


IME, the user rights for MediaWiki frequently need bludgeoning. I
routinely end up doing (something like):

 GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON wikidb.* TO 'wikiuser'@'localhost';
 GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON wikidb.* TO 'wikiuser'@'%';

- and it seems I need both.


- d.

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