Access denied when trying to backup Wiki

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Problem

My provider allows me to connect to the database via port forwarding (see: MediaWiki backup via SSH tunnel). This used to work all right but now I receive the error:

-- Connecting to 127.0.0.1...
-- MySQL dump 10.9
--
-- Host: 127.0.0.1    Database: db
-- ------------------------------------------------------
-- Server version       4.0.20
  
/*!40101 SET @OLD_CHARACTER_SET_CLIENT=@@CHARACTER_SET_CLIENT */;
/*!40101 SET @OLD_CHARACTER_SET_RESULTS=@@CHARACTER_SET_RESULTS */;
/*!40101 SET @OLD_COLLATION_CONNECTION=@@COLLATION_CONNECTION */;
/*!40101 SET NAMES utf8 */;
/*!40014 SET @OLD_UNIQUE_CHECKS=@@UNIQUE_CHECKS, UNIQUE_CHECKS=0 */;
/*!40014 SET @OLD_FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=@@FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS, FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=0 */;
/*!40101 SET @OLD_SQL_MODE=@@SQL_MODE, SQL_MODE='NO_AUTO_VALUE_ON_ZERO' */;
mysqldump: Got error: 1044: Access denied for user: 'user@host' to database 'db' when using LOCK TABLES

Solution

Hosting provider gave me right to LOCK TABLES.

Journal

20050815

Send e-mail to hosting provider. I remembered I upgraded to SuSE 9.3 lately, so maybe my new version of mysqldump requires LOCK TABLES permission? Maybe they can grant me the rights.

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