RE: Manual "Bug" - Sinisa Milivojevic - com.mysql.lists.bugs

2 messages in com.mysql.lists.bugsRE: Manual "Bug"

From	Sent On	Attachments
BrendaG	30 May 2002 17:08
Sinisa Milivojevic	31 May 2002 07:46

Subject:	RE: Manual "Bug"
From:	Sinisa Milivojevic (sin...@mysql.com)
Date:	05/31/2002 07:46:05 AM
List:	com.mysql.lists.bugs

BrendaG writes:

How-To-Repeat: This is a "bug" in the MySQL manual Not the MySQL server software.

In your manual under section 4.2.5 How the Privilege System Works, you state: The server uses the user, db, and host tables in the mysql database at BOTH stages of access control.

From everything I have read in your manual I disagree with that statement. The manual only explains how the user and host tables are used at BOTH stages of access control.

I say this because there is not even a mention of the db table in the section 4.2.8 Access Control, Stage 1: Connection Verification. So if the db table is indeed used in both stages, why isn't this functionality documented in section 4.2.8 of the manual?

Perhaps the intended statement was that the user, db, and host tables define "superuser"(global) privledges.

Please correct my missunderstanding, confirm this problem or inform me of the correct avenue to address this issue.

Thanks for your help, Wes G.

Actually there is a mention of db table in connection verification.

When host entry in user table is blank and also the one in db table, then host table is consulted and corresponding columns in all three tables are then ANDed.