Why is GRANT not working in MySQL?

Question

I\'m scratching my head on this one as I see a ton of helper websites showing how to create MySQL users and grant privileges but for some reason it just does not work for me

Answer 1

That's not where the most user GRANTed rights are stored - try

SHOW GRANTS FOR 'www'@'localhost'

to see database-specific permissions instead. (A grant would only show up in the user table if it was for all databases.)

Here's a (rather old) step-by-step detail of how permissions are stored in MySQL - I don't think things have changed much.