using 5.1.57 on Mac Lion.
<blush> I've done this a dozen times, but I've missed something.
Am setting up a new mysql installation ...
I have granted a user as follows (between lines of asterisks)
************************************************************
linus:~ tim$ sudo mysql
Password:
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Your MySQL connection id is 20
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mysql> use mysql;
Reading table information for completion of table and column names
You can turn off this feature to get a quicker startup with -A

Database changed
mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'tim'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'secret' WITH GRANT OPTION;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> quit;
Bye
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Now when I try to log in with host as localhost, user as tim
with 'secret' password:
linus:~ tim$ mysql --host=localhost --user=tim --password=secret
ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'tim'@'localhost' (using password: NO)
Huh!
If I login into the server as root again:
linus:~ tim$ sudo mysql
mysql> show grants for tim@localhost;
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Grants for tim@localhost |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'tim'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY PASSWORD '*E8482E479FD05E800263C26A724513BBBFAA108B' WITH GRANT OPTION |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)
It appears that the user is there.
Is there a difference in the syntax with this version for providing
the password?
If I try
mysql -h localhost -u tim -p
I get
ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'tim'@'localhost' (using password: NO)
just as in the example above.
Have I forgotten to do something in the setup?

TIA
--
Tim
tim at tee jay forty nine dot com or akwebsoft dot com
http://www.akwebsoft.com

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