On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Olaf Zanger wrote:

first: right now my setup uses a connection string "db root" which doesn't seam to give a lot of savety :-). at my provider i have a login, but sure no root access to the db. * how does the connection string look for user name "peter-hauser" and password "test3-.2"? * has the user to be set up in "linux" ? * how is the setup made in "mysql"? i tried with "grant all privileges on *.* to "peter-hauser"@localhost;" and "set password for "peter-hauser"=password('test3-.2');" but wasn't successful. * has zope to be run by user "peter-hauser"?

second? to set up a 3-tier application i should know how to connect mysql through MySQL-python 0.3.0 and ZMySQLDA 2.0.1 to my db-server.

* i can browse from the zope server to the db-server "pit" and otherway round with the names "pit" and "pitechon", so "hosts" file should be correct.

* how has the connection string to look like? i tried "db@pit 'peter-hauser'" but it didn't work? * has mysql to be started with an special flag to open a port? * does it work with the ip-number?

I thought what it printed when you created the connection would be sufficient: The connection string used for Z MySQL Database Connection is of the form: database[@host[:port]] [user [password [unix_socket]]] or typically: database user password to use a MySQL server on localhost via the standard UNIX socket. Only specify host if the server is on a remote system. You can use a non-standard port, if necessary. If the UNIX socket is in a non-standard location, you can specify the full path to it after the password. ...so you want something like: db@pit peter-hauser test3-.2 If pit is the local host: db peter-hauser test3-.2 ...will be faster and use the standard UNIX socket. You do not necessarily need a UNIX user by that name. Your GRANT statement looks basically correct, but check the MySQL documentation. -- Andy Dustman PGP: 0xC72F3F1D @ .net http://dustman.net/andy