access denied for load data infile in MySQL - mysql

Question

I use MySQL queries all the time in PHP, but when I try
LOAD DATA INFILE
I get the following error
#1045 - Access denied for user 'user'#'localhost' (using password: YES)
Does anyone know what this means?

Answer 1

I just ran into this issue as well. I had to add LOCAL to my SQL statement.
For example, this gives the permission problem:
LOAD DATA INFILE '{$file}' INTO TABLE {$table}
Add LOCAL to your statement and the permissions issue should go away. Like so:
LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE '{$file}' INTO TABLE {$table}

Answer 2

I had this problem. I searched around and did not find a satisfactory answer. I summarise below the results of my searches.
The access denied error could mean that:
'user'#'localhost' does not have the FILE privilege (GRANT FILE on *.* to user#'localhost'); or,
the file you are trying to load does not exist on the machine running mysql server (if using LOAD DATA INFILE); or,
the file you are trying to load does not exist on your local machine (if using LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE); or,
the file you are trying to load is not world readable (you need the file and all parent directories to be world-readable: chmod 755 directory; and, chmod 744 file.dat)

Answer 3

Try using this command:
load data local infile 'home/data.txt' into table customer;
This should work. It worked in my case.

Answer 4

Ensure your MySQL user has the FILE privilege granted.
If you are on shared web hosting, there is a chance this is blocked by your hosting provider.

Answer 5

I found easy one if you are using command line
Login asmysql -u[username] -p[password] --local-infile
then SET GLOBAL local_infile = 1;
select your database by use [db_name]
and finally LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE 'C:\\Users\\shant\\Downloads\\data-1573708892247.csv' INTO TABLE visitors_final_test FIELDS TERMINATED BY ','LINES TERMINATED BY '\r \n' IGNORE 1 LINES;

Answer 6

The string from Lyon gave me a very good tip: On Windows, we need to use slahes and not backslashes. This code works for me:
File tempFile = File.createTempFile(tableName, ".csv");
FileUtils.copyInputStreamToFile(data, tempFile);
JdbcTemplate template = new JdbcTemplate(dataSource);
String path = tempFile.getAbsolutePath().replace('\\', '/');
int rows = template.update(MessageFormat
.format("LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE ''{0}'' INTO TABLE {1} FIELDS TERMINATED BY '',''",
path, tableName));
logger.info("imported {} rows into {}", rows, tableName);
tempFile.delete();

Answer 7

If you are trying this on MySQL Workbench,
Go to connections -> edit connection -> select advanced tab
and add OPT_LOCAL_INFILE=1 in the 'Others' text field.
Now restart the connection and try.

Answer 8

I ran into the same issue, and solve it by folowing those steps :
activate load_infile variable
grand file permission to my custom mysql user
deactivate secure_file_priv variable (my file was uploaded by the webserver to the /tmp folder which is of course not the secured directory of myslq /var/lib/mysql-file)
For this 3rd point, you can refer to : https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/server-system-variables.html#sysvar_secure_file_priv
BR,
AD

Answer 9

This happened to me as well and despite having followed all the steps described by Yamir in his post I couldn't make it work.
The file was in /tmp/test.csv with 777 permissions. The MySQL user had file permissions, LOCAL option was not allowed by my MySQL version, so I was stuck.
Finally I was able to solve the problem by running:
sudo chown mysql:mysql /tmp/test.csv

Answer 10

I discovered loading MySQL tables can be fast and painless (I was using python / Django model manager scripts):
1) create table with all columns VARCHAR(n) NULL e.g.:
mysql> CREATE TABLE cw_well2( api VARCHAR(10) NULL,api_county VARCHAR(3) NULL);

2) remove headers (first line) from csv, then load (if you forget the LOCAL, you’ll get “#1045 - Access denied for user 'user'#'localhost' (using password: YES)”):
mysql> LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE "/home/magula6/cogswatch2/well2.csv" INTO TABLE cw_well2 FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' LINES TERMINATED BY '\n'
    -> ;
Query OK, 119426 rows affected, 19962 warnings  (3.41 sec)

3) alter columns:
mysql> ALTER TABLE cw_well2 CHANGE spud_date spud_date DATE;
mysql> ALTER TABLE cw_well2 CHANGE latitude latitude FLOAT;
voilà!

Answer 11

I was trying to insert data from CSV to MYSQL DB using python.
You can try the below method to load data from CSV to Database.
Make a connection with the Database using pymysql or MySQL.connector any library you want in python.
Make Sure you are able to use the in-line while connecting for that while providing host, user, and password try to add local_inline=True.
Skipping to load data part.
sql = f'''LOAD DATA LOCAL infile "filename.csv" INTO TABLE schema.tablename FILED TERMINATED BY ',' ENCLOSED BY '"' LINES TERMINATED BY '\r\n'''' Note: If you have column names in CSV, use IGNORE ROW 1 LINES. The execute the sql by: cursor.execute(sql) conn.commit() conn.close()

Answer 12

It probably means that the password you supplied for 'user'#'localhost' is incorrect.