ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied

Question

This is a usual problem i've encountered before:

:~$ mysql -h "1xx.xxx.xxx.xxx" -u "someuser" -ppassword "somepass" -D "somedatabase"
ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'someuser'@'yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy' (using password: YES)

But this time, when I try to connect to the remote vps xxx.xxx.xxx.... . I get an error 1045 where the ip address is my ip address which tells me its clearly not even trying to connect to the remote vps. (xxx is not yyy. i want to connect to the xxx.x...)

Any guesses, help? anyone else faced such problem before?

i tried the same thing from python via mysql connector module but same thing.

Answer 1

You need to allow access to the user from remote locations.

CREATE USER 'user'@'remotehost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON * . * TO 'user'@'remotehost';
FLUSH PIVILEGES;