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Solve ERROR 1396 (HY000): Operation DROP USER failed for 'user'@'localhost' in MySql?
This error occurs when you drop a user with localhost while you have created a user with ‘%’.
Let us create a user with ‘%’ and drop the user as a localhost. The syntax is as follows
CREATE USER 'yourUserName'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'yourPassword';
Let us create a user using the above syntax. The query to create a user is as follows
mysql> CREATE USER 'Jack'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY '1234'; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.26 sec)
Check user is created successfully or not
mysql> select user,host from MySQL.user;
The following is the output
+------------------+-----------+ | user | host | +------------------+-----------+ | Jack | % | | Manish | % | | User2 | % | | mysql.infoschema | % | | mysql.session | % | | mysql.sys | % | | root | % | | Adam Smith | localhost | | User1 | localhost | | am | localhost | +------------------+-----------+ 10 rows in set (0.00 sec)
Look at the above sample output, we have a user with name ‘Jack’ and host is ‘%’. Whenever you try to drop the user with localhost then you will get an error which is as follows
mysql> DROP USER 'Jack'@'localhost'; ERROR 1396 (HY000): Operation DROP USER failed for 'Jack'@'localhost'
Let us drop the above user with host ‘%’. The query is as follows
mysql> DROP USER 'Jack'@'%'; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.19 sec)
Check the user has been dropped or not from MySQL.user table. The query is as follows
mysql> select user,host from MySQL.user;
The following is the output displaying that the user Jack is removed successfully
+------------------+-----------+ | user | host | +------------------+-----------+ | Manish | % | | User2 | % | | mysql.infoschema | % | | mysql.session | % | | mysql.sys | % | | root | % | | Adam Smith | localhost | | User1 | localhost | | am | localhost | +------------------+-----------+ 9 rows in set (0.00 sec)
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