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How To Create a New MySQL User with Grant Permissions

Rahul — Thu, 11 Dec 2014 12:49:04 +0000

MySQL is a relational database management system used for storing data in tabular format. It provides high flexibility for the user account and grant permissions.

This tutorial will provide you a short overview to create MySQL user account and grant permissions on database.

Create A MySQL User with Permissions

Here we are running all queries as root account having full privileges to all databases. You can create MySQL user account with required privileges.

Let’s create a new MySQL user within MySQL shell:
```
mysql> CREATE USER 'newuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'pa$$word';
```
Here newuser is the username to be created. The localhost is defines that this user is only accessible from localhost only. To connect MySQL from any remote host, change the localhost with remote system ip address. You can also use % to allow any remote host to connect with this account.
Now, assign the required privileges to the newly created MySQL user.
```
mysql> GRANT ALL ON *.* TO 'newuser'@'localhost';
```
Read next step to know more about various grant option for mysql account.
After adding or modifying any privileges, make sur to reload the privilege’s to apply changes in running MySQL instance.
```
mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
```

Grant MySQL User Permissions

Here is the frequently used options with assigning privileges to user in MySQL.

ALL – This will allow a mysql user the complete access to the specified database or full access to all databases
SELECT – Allow user to select data from tables
INSERT – Allow user to insert data into tables
UPDATE – Allow user to update data in tables
DELETE – Allow user to delete rows in tables
CREATE – Allow user to create new database and tables
DROP – Allow user to delete databases and tables
ALTER – Allow user to alter the structure of a table or to create triggers on a table.
GRANT OPTION -Allow user to grant or remove other user privileges

Use the following option to grant all privileges on specific database to newuse@localhost.

mysql> GRANT ALL ON dbname.* TO 'newuser'@'localhost';

Use the following option to grant specific permissions like SELECT,INSERT,DELETE on a specific database to newuse@localhost.

mysql> GRANT SELECT,INSERT,DELETE ON dbname.* TO 'newuser'@'localhost';

All all priviledges to user@localhsot on specific database including permissions to grant other users.

mysql> GRANT ALL ON dbname.* TO 'newuser'@'localhost' WITH GRANT OPTION;

You can also view the allowed permission to a user in MySQL.

mysql> SHOW GRANTS FOR 'newuser'@'localhost';

Login to MySQL Shell

mysql -u newuser -p


Enter password:
Welcome to the MySQL monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 4817
Server version: 5.7.32-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 (Ubuntu)

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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>

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How To Create a New User and Grant Permissions in MySQL
Rahul — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 10:45:19 +0000
MySQL is a relational database management system, used for storing data in form of tables and records. You can insert, modify or retrieve data using SQL statements or programming languages. It allows us to create new users and grant permissions on tables of the database. As a good practice always use a separate user for all databases. This will ensure that the application can’t access other applications’ databases.
The purpose of this tutorial is to create a new user in the MySQL server and grant permissions to databases. This tutorial includes instructions to create users, and grant permission on all tables of specific databases or all tables of all databases. 
Before We Begin
You must have a running MySQL server with administrative privilege account access. Login to the MySQL server with superuser or root account access. This will allow you to create new users and grant permissions to databases.
Firstly, connect to MySQL server to perform further instructions.  
1. Create a New User in MySQL 
Login to the MySQL server with a root user with shell access and create a new user named “rahul”. The below statement will allow accessing MySQL server to user rahul from the localhost only.
CREATE USER 'rahul'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password'; 

Now assign the privileges to the specific database. The below command will allow all privileges on database “mydb” to user rahul.
GRANT ALL ON mydb.* TO 'rahul'@'localhost'; 

To grant all privileges on all databases, use below query:
GRANT ALL ON *.* TO 'rahul'@'localhost'; 

After creating or making any changes, make sure to reload privileges with the below SQL query.
FLUSH PRIVILEGES; 


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2. Create MySQL User with Remote Access 
To allow any user to connect to MySQL server from the remote system. You need to specify the hostname or IP address of the remote system. You can also use “%” as a wildcard character.

For example, to create a MySQL user-accessible from specific IP only (eg: 192.168.1.10)
CREATE USER 'rahul'@'192.168.1.10' IDENTIFIED BY 'password'; 


To create a MySQL user for a network range (eg: 192.168.1.0/24)
CREATE USER 'rahul'@'192.168.1.0/24' IDENTIFIED BY 'password'; 


You can also create MySQL user account accessible from any host. In that case use “%” as wildcard character.
CREATE USER 'rahul'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'password'; 



3. Grant Permissions to Specific User 
Please find below list of frequently used privileges in MySQL user. Visit here to get full list of privileges for MySQL user.

ALL [PRIVILEGES] – Grant all privileges to user. 
CREATE – Grant user to create new databases and tables. 
DROP – Grant user to delete (drop) databases and tables. 
DELETE – Grant user to delete rows from tables. 
ALTER – Grant user to modify table structure. 
INSERT – Grant user to insert (add) rows into tables. 
SELECT – Grant user to run select command to read data from tables. 
UPDATE – Grant user to update data in tables. 
EXECUTE – Grant user to execute stored routines. 
FILE – Grant user to access file on server host. 
GRANT OPTION – Grant user to grant or remove other users’ privileges. 

Here, you can specify privileges separated by a comma in place of ALL. For example to allow CREATE, DELETE, INSERT, and UPDATE access to ‘rahul’@’localhost’ on database mydb.
GRANT CREATE,DELETE,INSERT,UPDATE ON mydb.* TO 'rahul'@'localhost'; 
FLUSH PRIVILEGES; 

4. Revoke User Permissions in MySQL 
Use the REVOKE statement to remove any specific privilege from the user. For example to remove the DELETE privilege from user ‘rahul’@’localhost’ on mydb database.

To remove the specific permission from database, use query like:
REVOKE DELETE ON mydb.* TO 'rahul'@'localhost'; 


To remove all permission of a user on a database, use query like:
REVOKE ALL ON mydb.* TO 'rahul'@'localhost'; 


Even you can revoke permissions on all databases for the specific user.
REVOKE ALL ON *.* TO 'rahul'@'localhost'; 



After revoking the permission, you must run FLUSH PRIVILEGES;  query to apply changes.
5. Drop User in MySQL 
Use MySQL DROP statement to delete an existing user from server. For example to delete user ‘rahul’@’localhost’, execute the following query:
DROP USER 'rahul'@'localhost'; 
FLUSH PRIVILEGES; 

Conclusion 
In this tutorial, you have learned to create a new user and grant permissions to the MySQL server. Also provided the instructions to change or revoke permissions of any MySQL user. 
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