Title: UPDATE command denied to user
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# UPDATE command denied to user

 *  [finkfinktank3000com](https://wordpress.org/support/users/finkfinktank3000com/)
 * (@finkfinktank3000com)
 * [19 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-command-denied-to-user/)
 * When I try to save a story I’ve just written, I get the error message below. 
   I’m using wordpress 1.5 and have had no problems until tonight. I called my provider
   and the database is okay. I’ve had no problems with my ftp either. So I’m guessing
   this is a problem with the files called “wp_posts” and “wp_option” which I don’t
   even have as far as I can tell. Can anyone help with this? error message below…
 * WordPress database error: [INSERT command denied to user ‘username’@’server’ 
   for table ‘wp_posts’]
    INSERT INTO wp_posts (ID, post_author, post_date, post_date_gmt,
   post_content, post_title, post_excerpt, post_status, comment_status, ping_status,
   post_password, post_name, to_ping, post_modified, post_modified_gmt, post_parent,
   menu_order) VALUES (‘460’, ‘1’, ‘2006-10-05 18:30:49’, ‘2006-10-05 23:30:49’,‘
   test’, ‘test’, ”, ‘draft’, ‘open’, ‘open’, ”, ‘test’, ”, ‘2006-10-05 18:30:49’,‘
   2006-10-05 23:30:49’, ‘0’, ‘0’)
 * Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started
   at /home/cust1/username/html/wordpress/wp-includes/wp-db.php:98) in /home/cust1/
   user1122847/html/wordpress/wp-admin/post.php on line 153
    WordPress database 
   error: [INSERT command denied to user ‘username’@’servername’ for table ‘wp_post2cat’]
   INSERT INTO wp_post2cat (post_id, category_id) VALUES (460, 9)
 * WordPress database error: [UPDATE command denied to user ‘username’@’servername’
   for table ‘wp_posts’]
    UPDATE wp_posts SET guid = ‘[http://www.finktank3000.com/wordpress/?p=&#8217](http://www.finktank3000.com/wordpress/?p=&#8217);
   WHERE ID = ‘460’

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 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [19 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-command-denied-to-user/#post-462349)
 * Check the rights (privileges) for the database user defined in your `wp-config.
   php` file. You usually access this (changing rights) through your host’s control
   panel. Weird that the rights would change, but maybe it happened.
 * If you find your rights are correct, then see if you can use [phpMyAdmin](http://codex.wordpress.org/phpMyAdmin)
   to access your [database](http://codex.wordpress.org/Database_Description). In
   there is the `wp_posts` table. Maybe try optimizing that table.
 *  Thread Starter [finkfinktank3000com](https://wordpress.org/support/users/finkfinktank3000com/)
 * (@finkfinktank3000com)
 * [19 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-command-denied-to-user/#post-462562)
 * Thanks MichaelH. Is there anything in particular I should be looking for in the
   wp-config.php file? I’m still at a loss about what has changed recently.
 * Also, I succesfully set up phpMyAdmin as a plug-in but it won’t do anything because
   I can’t connect to my database.
 * Thanks again for your help. And to the wordpress message board gods, sorry this
   post appeared in the “Installation” section. I thought I had selected the correct
   section.
 * -dan
 *  [Glo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/glo/)
 * (@glo)
 * [19 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-command-denied-to-user/#post-462563)
 * Has any of the following changed in your wp-config file since you installed WP?
   Have you recently changed your username and password for your host account?
 * define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘YOUR DATABASE NAME’);
    define(‘DB_USER’, ‘YOUR DATABASE USER
   NAME’); define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘YOUR DATABSE PASSWORD’); define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘localhost’);
 *  Thread Starter [finkfinktank3000com](https://wordpress.org/support/users/finkfinktank3000com/)
 * (@finkfinktank3000com)
 * [19 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-command-denied-to-user/#post-462564)
 * I haven’t changed anything. I will say however that, in the error prompt on my
   dashboard, it says I’m usernameblablabla @ at an IP address I don’t recognize
   and definitely isn’t my host IP.
 * Where does that information come from? That is, where does the info in the database
   error (in my first post above) originate from? Is there a file I could go into
   and change to my host’s IP?
 * Slowly puzzling this out. Thanks for your help.
 * dan

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