On 4 August 2010 23:01, Platonides <Platonides(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Benjamin Lees wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Sullivan, James (NIH/CIT) [C]
> <sullivan(a)mail.nih.gov> 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.