MySQL Problem

[DoobyWho]

I'd like to connect to MySQL via MySQL Administrator and MySQL Query Browser.

I was getting an error that I was not allowed to access it - so I created an SSH tunnel with PuTTy and now my error was that localhost.localdomain could not access it.

I removed localhost.localdomain from the /etc/hosts file and now I am working fine.

Is it safe to remove localhost.localdomain from the /etc/hosts file? What does that file do?

If not - how else should I enable this? I'd like to easily add certain users the ability to access remotely from certain IP addresses, but not all users or all IP's.

Thanks!

 

[hardweb]

You should not remove the localhost from /etc/hosts, many software use localhost. What error did you get that made you to remove it?

 

[DoobyWho]

not localhost but localhost.localdomain

 

[DoobyWho]

Any other ideas?

 

[dynaweb]

Were you ever able to get MySQL Query Browser to work?