On Wednesday, March 27, 2002, at 11:45 AM, Jay Greenspan wrote: > I think there's an option for starting the daemon while bypassing the > GRANT tables. > Yeah, there is > > --skip-grant-tables > > So I'm thinking that as Linux root you could kill the daemon, then > restart it skipping the grants. Then you could re-apply the grants as > appropriate. > Or, as the manual puts it... http://www.mysql.com/doc/R/e/Resetting_permissions.html -j