MySQL user and password errors

[Cathy Valdez]

MySQL 4.0.17 and MySQL Connector/J 3.0 were installed in my PC.
1.) I'm trying to create a user at the same time grant privileges to that user using MySql, by this command:

mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON database.* TO user@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'password';  

For example:

mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON WordGames.* TO cathy@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'aprfeb'; 

but error below occurred:

ERROR 1044: Access denied for user: '@localhost' to database 'WordGames'  

2.) I'm trying to connect to the server, by the command below:

c:mysql\bin>mysql -h localhost -u cathy -p
Enter password: ****** 

but error below occured:

ERROR 1045: Access denied for user: 'cathy@localhost' (Using password: YES) 

Can anybody there help? I'm new to MySQL, what do errors above mean? What should I do to fix those errors?
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Cathy
[ February 13, 2004: Message edited by: Cathy Valdez ]

[Bosun Bello]

Does the DB actually require a user/password and have you tried Aaccesing it without one? I have myAQL running on my local machine and I never have to access it without a user/password.
I connect to a DB called "notepad" as follows.
Connection databaseConnection = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:mysql://localhost/notepad");

[leo donahue]

Hi Cathy,
I think that using the -h switch allows you to connect to a MySQL database if it were installed on another machine. Maybe you could just try using:
c:mysql\bin>mysql -u cathy -p
Try logging in as root and then run this sql statement:
grant create, create temporary tables, delete, execute, index, insert,
lock tables, select, show databases, update
on WordGames.*
to cathy@localhost identified by 'aprfeb';