MySQL - Error 1045, access denied

Question

EDIT : Fixed it by creating 'fakaff'@'localhost' .

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First time using MySQL, using latest MAMP installation. Following the tutorial, I started by creating a database:

CREATE publications; USE publications;

Next, I created a user. I tried both variations but both give me ERROR 1045 :

GRANT ALL ON publications.* TO 'fakaff' IDENTIFIED BY '12345';

and

GRANT ALL ON publications.* TO 'fakaff@localhost' IDENTIFIED BY '12345'; 
//edit: clearly I screwed up the syntax here so it didn't work. 

When I try to log in and enter my password, I get this message:

/Applications/MAMP/Library/bin/mysqp -u fakaff -p

I get:

ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'fakaff'@'localhost' (using password: YES)

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Any idea what's causing the error? I've not played with any settings or entered any commands other than the ones I listed.

Answer 1

Try 'flush privileges'. It's either that, or you haven't allowed remote access, but since this is local, that shouldn't be the case.