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MySQL grant

What is MySQL grant

The MySQL database software offers both administrators and users a great amount of control options. You can learn more about the users' MySQL management rights in our articles dedicated to the create-user, create-database, create-table and alter-table command options. The administration side of the process includes the possibility for the administrators to control certain user privileges over the MySQL server by restricting their access to an entire database or just limiting permissions for a specific table.

The administrators' control over the MySQL server users is executed through five tables within the MySQL database - the user table, determining whether the user can connect to the server or not, the db, tables_priv and columns_pri tables, specifying which users can access certain databases, tables or table columns from given hosts, and the host table, defining whether an entry within the db table should be extended and with what values.

How to GRANT privileges to users

The GRANT statement gives you the power to enable all, or a selection of, user privileges for a database or for a specific table. In order to GRANT privileges, first you need to log in to the MySQL server using an SSH client. Once you’ve opened an SSH console, please connect to the MySQL server using the following command:

An example on how to log in to a MySQL server using SSH

$mysqladmin -u db_user password db_passwd Note: that db_user and db_passwd are your database username and database password

Once logged on to the server, you will see MySQL's SQL command line. Now you can add specific privileges to a user. Let's for example grant SELECT privileges to a user db_user for database 'db_base'. Here is the SQL query:

An example of how to add SELECT privileges to a user using GRANT

GRANT SELECT ON db_base.* TO db_user@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'db_passwd';

If SELECT is not enough for our user we can add more privileges using a query similar to the one below:

An example of how to add a selection of privileges to a user using GRANT

GRANT SELECT, INSERT, DELETE ON db_base.* TO db_user@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'db_passwd';

If you want to GRANT ALL the privileges to a user then use this query:

An example of how to Grant Privileges in MySQL

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON db_base.* TO db_user @'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'db_passwd';

As you see in the latest example we use '%' instead of localhost, which means that our user can use all the privileges from every host.

Sometimes you need to grant privileges to a user for a specific table. To specify the table, replace '*' in 'db_base.*' with your table's name.

An example of how to Grant Privileges in MySQL

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON db_base.phonebook TO db_user @'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'db_passwd';

Once you have given the desired privileges for your user, you will need to FLUSH privileges in order to complete the setup and to make the new settings work. To do so, run this command within the SQL command prompt:

An example of how to FLUSH privileges

FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

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Summary: in this tutorial, you will learn how to use the MySQL GRANT statement to grant privileges to user accounts.

Introduction to the MySQL GRANT statement

The CREATE USER statement creates one or more user accounts with no privileges. It means that the user accounts can log in to the MySQL Server, but cannot do anything such as selecting a database and querying data from tables.

To allow user accounts to work with database objects, you need to grant the user accounts privileges. And the GRANT statement grants a user account one or more privileges.

The following illustrates the basic syntax of the GRANT statement:

GRANT privilege [,privilege],.. ON privilege_level TO account_name;

Code language: SQL (Structured Query Language) (sql)

In this syntax:

First, specify one or more privileges after the GRANT keyword. If you grant multiple privileges, you need to separate privileges by commas.

This example grants the SELECT privilege on the table employees  in the sample database to the user acount bob@localhost:

GRANT SELECT ON employees TO bob@localhost;

Code language: SQL (Structured Query Language) (sql)

The following example grants UPDATE, DELETE, and INSERT privileges on the table employees to bob@localhost:

GRANT INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE ON employees TO bob@localhost;

Code language: SQL (Structured Query Language) (sql)

Second, specify the privilege_level that determines the level to which the privileges apply.

MySQL supports the following main privilege levels:

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Global privileges apply to all databases in a MySQL Server. To assign global privileges, you use the *.* syntax, for example:

GRANT SELECT ON *.* TO bob@localhost;

Code language: SQL (Structured Query Language) (sql)

The account user bob@localhost can query data from all tables in all database of the current MySQL Server.

Database privileges apply to all objects in a database. To assign database-level privileges, you use the ON database_name.* syntax, for example:

GRANT INSERT ON classicmodels.* TO bob@localhost;

Code language: SQL (Structured Query Language) (sql)

In this example, bob@localhost can insert data into all tables in the classicmodels database.

Table privileges apply to all columns in a table. To assign table-level privileges, you use the ON database_name.table_name syntax, for example:

GRANT DELETE ON classicmodels.employees TO bob@localhsot;

Code language: SQL (Structured Query Language) (sql)

In this example, bob@localhost can delete rows from the table employees in the database classicmodels.

If you skip the database name, MySQL uses the default database or issues an error if there is no default database.

Column privileges apply to single columns in a table.  You must specify the column or columns for each privilege, for example:

GRANT SELECT (employeeNumner,lastName, firstName,email), UPDATE(lastName) ON employees TO bob@localhost;

Code language: SQL (Structured Query Language) (sql)

In this example, bob@localhost can select data from four columns employeeNumber, lastName, firstName, and email and update only the lastName column in the employees table.

Stored routine privileges apply to stored procedures and stored functions, for example:

GRANT EXECUTE ON PROCEDURE CheckCredit TO bob@localhost;

Code language: SQL (Structured Query Language) (sql)

In this example, bob@localhost can execute the stored procedure CheckCredit in the current database.

Proxy user privileges allow one user to be a proxy for another. The proxy user gets all privileges of the proxied user. For example:

GRANT PROXY ON root TO alice@localhost;

Code language: SQL (Structured Query Language) (sql)

In this example, alice@localhost assumes all privileges of root.

Finally, specify the account name of the user that you want to grant privileges after the TO keyword.

Notice that in order to use the GRANT statement, you must have the GRANT OPTION privilege and the privileges that you are granting. If the read_only system variable is enabled, you need to have the SUPER privilege to execute the GRANT statement.

MySQL GRANT statement examples

Typically, you use the CREATE USER statement to create a new user account first and then use the GRANT statement to grant privileges to the user.

First, create a new user called super@localhost by using the following CREATE USER statement:

CREATE USER super@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'Secure1Pass!';

Code language: SQL (Structured Query Language) (sql)

Second, show the privileges assigned to super@localhost user by using the SHOW GRANTS statement.

SHOW GRANTS FOR super@localhost;

Code language: SQL (Structured Query Language) (sql)
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The USAGE means that the super@localhost can log in the database but has no privilege.

Third, grant all privileges in all databases in the current database server to super@localhost:

GRANT ALL ON classicmodels.* TO super@localhost;

Code language: SQL (Structured Query Language) (sql)

Fourth, use the SHOW GRANTS statement again:

SHOW GRANTS FOR super@localhost;

Code language: SQL (Structured Query Language) (sql)
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Permissible privileges for GRANT statement

The following table illustrates all permissible privileges that you can use for the GRANT and REVOKE statement:

Privilege Meaning Level
Global Database Table Column Stored Routine Proxy
ALL [PRIVILEGES] Grant all privileges at specified access level except GRANT OPTION
ALTER Allow user to use of ALTER TABLEstatement X X X
ALTER ROUTINE Allow user to alter and drop stored procedures or stored functions. X X X
CREATE Allow user to create databases and tables X X X
CREATE ROUTINE Allow user to create stored procedures and stored functions X X
CREATE TABLESPACE Allow user to create, alter or drop tablespaces and log file groups X
CREATE TEMPORARY TABLES Allow user to create a temporary table by using CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE statement X X
CREATE USER Allow user to use the CREATE USER, DROP USER, RENAME USER, and REVOKE ALL PRIVILEGES statements. X
CREATE VIEW Allow user to create or modify the view. X X X
DELETE Allow user to use DELETE statement X X X
DROP Allow user to drop database, table and view X X X
EVENT Enable use of events for the Event Scheduler. X X
EXECUTE Allow user to execute stored routines X X X
FILE Allow user to read any file in the database directory. X
GRANT OPTION Allow user to have privileges to grant or revoke privileges from other accounts. X X X X X
INDEX Allow user to create or drop indexes. X X X
INSERT Allow user to use the INSERT statement X X X X
LOCK TABLES Allow user to use LOCK TABLES on tables for which you have the SELECT privilege X X
PROCESS Allow user to see all processes with SHOW PROCESSLIST statement. X
PROXY Enable user proxying.
REFERENCES Allow user to create a foreign key X X X X
RELOAD Allow user to use FLUSH statement X
REPLICATION CLIENT Allow user to query to see where master or slave servers are X
REPLICATION SLAVE Allow the user to use replicate slaves to read binary log events from the master. X
SELECT Allow user to use SELECT statement X X X X
SHOW DATABASES Allow user to show all databases X
SHOW VIEW Allow user to use SHOW CREATE VIEW statement X X X
SHUTDOWN Allow user to use mysqladmin shutdown command X
SUPER Allow user to use other administrative operations such as CHANGE MASTER TO, KILL, PURGE BINARY LOGS, SET GLOBAL, and mysqladmin command X
TRIGGER Allow user to use TRIGGER operations. X X X
UPDATE Allow user to use the UPDATE statement X X X X
USAGE Equivalent to “no privileges”

In this tutorial, you have learned how to use the MySQL GRANT statement to grant privileges to a user.

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What is MySQL grant option?

The WITH GRANT OPTION clause gives the user the ability to give to other users any privileges the user has at the specified privilege level. To grant the GRANT OPTION privilege to an account without otherwise changing its privileges, do this: GRANT USAGE ON *.

How can I see the privileges of user in MySQL?

If the user account you are logged in as has SELECT privileges on the internal mysql database, you can see the privileges granted to other user accounts. To show the privileges of other accounts, use the following format: SHOW GRANTS FOR '<user>'@'<host>'; The output will display the privileges of the provided account.

What are the grant tables in the MySQL database?

These mysql database tables contain grant information: user : User accounts, global privileges, and other nonprivilege columns. db : Database-level privileges. tables_priv : Table-level privileges.