[BlueOnyx:16762] Re: mysql root user permissions problem

[George F. Nemeyer]

On Sat, 27 Dec 2014, Michael Stauber wrote:

> > Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using
> > password: YES)
>
> Just a shot in the dark here: Can you try 'root'@'127.0.0.1' instead?

I had one box suddenly get picky about that sort of thing in the
hosts.deny and hosts.allow files.  It never had anything in hosts.allow
before, and after some updates began griping until I added localhost and
127.0.0.1 into the previously empty list.