[thelist] MySQL and Ubuntu8.04

Hassan Schroeder hassan.schroeder at gmail.com
Thu Oct 23 18:45:16 CDT 2008


On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 4:34 PM, David Hamilton
<davidhamilton3 at sympatico.ca> wrote:

> If you want to use ssh to connect to mysql, I believe you have to have a
> user who is able to connect from another machine other than localhost

No, once you SSH to another system you're effectively "local" and
the account you'll use will have to be `you`@`localhost`.

If you want to connect directly to a remote DB via a MySQL client,
CLI or otherwise, then you need to be either @`%` or identified by
the exact host.domain or IP.

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