Comments on: Houston, I can’t write to file

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:22:45 +0000

Thank you so much

Tina:
open terminal and navigate to the folder with my.cnf
type: sudo chmod 600 my.cnf

hit enter then input your password. Restart mysql and you are good to go

By: Wim

Wim — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:20:27 +0000

This has been a lifesaver… Thanks so much!

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 13:17:54 +0000

Thank you! I’ve been pouring through tons of on-line advice on this same problem. Some had me changing permissions to 777 throughout, others had me add lines to the config file, etc. Your advice is the one that worked! What an obscure fix! How did you ever determine that the permissions for my.cnf had to be 0600?

Thanks again!

By: Tina

Tina — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 05:52:14 +0000

Hi, where did you change this permission?

By: Julien

Julien — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:23:04 +0000

Great !
It saved us, we’re trying to setup XAMPP and we get so much access rights errors !
Nevertheless it should be more explicit !