# Percona toolkit 3.5 issue (pt-show-grants not working) **URL:** \ **Category:** MariaDB Server & Utilities\ **Created:** [January 5, 2023, 1:50am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/percona-toolkit-3-5-issue-pt-show-grants-not-working/19470 "2023-01-05T01:50:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![indigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dec6dc/32.png) [@indigo](https://forums.percona.com/u/indigo)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2023, 1:50am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/percona-toolkit-3-5-issue-pt-show-grants-not-working/19470/1 "2023-01-05T01:50:14Z")
Installed latest percona-toolkit Getting the following error with pt-show-grants: pt-show-grants DBI connect(‘;;mysql\_read\_default\_group=client’,‘’,…) failed: Access denied for user ‘root’@‘localhost’ (using password: NO) at /usr/bin/pt-show-grants line 1367. The following NEW packages will be installed: percona-toolkit 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 75 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/19.3 MB of archives. After this operation, 67.1 MB of additional disk space will be used. Selecting previously unselected package percona-toolkit. (Reading database … 43309 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack …/percona-toolkit\_3.5.0-5.bullseye\_amd64.deb … Unpacking percona-toolkit (3.5.0-5.bullseye) … Setting up percona-toolkit (3.5.0-5.bullseye) … Processing triggers for man-db (2.9.4-2) … root@prod01-dftl:~# root@prod01-dftl:~# mysql Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g. Your MySQL connection id is 3918018 Server version: 5.6.51-91.0-log Percona Server (GPL), Release 91.0, Revision b59139e Copyright (c) 2009-2021 Percona LLC and/or its affiliates Copyright (c) 2000, 2021, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners. Type ‘help;’ or ‘\h’ for help. Type ‘\c’ to clear the current input statement. mysql\> quit Bye root@prod01-dftl:~# pt-show-grants DBI connect(‘;;mysql\_read\_default\_group=client’,‘’,…) failed: Access denied for user ‘root’@‘localhost’ (using password: NO) at /usr/bin/pt-show-grants line 1367. root@prod01-dftl:~# ---
**Author:** ![indigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dec6dc/32.png) [@indigo](https://forums.percona.com/u/indigo)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2023, 2:52am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/percona-toolkit-3-5-issue-pt-show-grants-not-working/19470/2 "2023-01-05T02:52:58Z")
Resolved it by adding this to .my.cnf [Client] user=root passowrd=correctpassword ---
**Author:** ![Ivan\_Groenewold](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/ivan_groenewold/32/6299_2.png) [@Ivan\_Groenewold](https://forums.percona.com/u/Ivan_Groenewold)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2023, 1:50pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/percona-toolkit-3-5-issue-pt-show-grants-not-working/19470/3 "2023-01-05T13:50:35Z")
Hi, this is working as intended. You have to provide the credentials either as a parameter or in .my.cnf file as you did in the last message.