Comments on: Howto: Remote Root Access to MySql

By: evanism

evanism — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 12:22:29 +0000

that last compontnent of #bind-address = 127.0.0.1 did it for me. I have been hacking away for hours and was screwed by that one line!

By: James

James — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 19:27:10 +0000

Thank you, I tried numerous other ways and this is by far the quickest (and easiest).

By: Pomodoro technique

Pomodoro technique — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 13:51:12 +0000

Is there a method to perform this from phpmyadmin? Thank you.

By: Brendan

Brendan — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 01:42:38 +0000

I followed your instructions and initially still got the “access denied” error. When you make your root user at the MYSQL server, that user’s password must be encrypted by the MYSQL server in order to function. Otherwise, logging in from another host with the exact password will throw an error.

SET PASSWORD FOR ‘root’@'xx.xx.xx.xx’ = PASSWORD(‘abc123′);

By: tastesnow

tastesnow — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 10:11:42 +0000

highly appreciated. I resolved my problem.

By: roadworrier

roadworrier — Thu, 12 May 2011 15:46:26 +0000

ah, thanks. I didn’t want to do all of the things other tutorials told me about, all I wanted to do was know how to grant all privileges on *.* to ‘root’@'%’ so I could log in remotely. Perfect. Thanks.

By: wannabe

wannabe — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 15:23:00 +0000

hi, i still get this error after doin all the tutorial says, please help me:
1130 – Host ‘mypc.local’ is not allowed to connectto this MySQL server

By: crimso

crimso — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 12:08:15 +0000

thanx for this! got my workbench working in a snap after reading this!

By: Neal

Neal — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 19:29:03 +0000

Nice post. Just a comment, that I *think* it would be pretty important not to simply comment out this line:

bind-address = 127.0.0.1

But to change the IP with the machine’s IP address, which is probably often an internal IP address.

By: hamid

hamid — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 14:44:44 +0000

Thanks