How do I view the grants (access rights) for a given user in MySQL?
An alternative method for recent versions of MySQL is:
select * from information_schema.user_privileges where grantee like "'user'%";
The possible advantage with this format is the increased flexibility to check "user's" grants from any host (assuming consistent user names) or to check for specific privileges with additional conditions (eg, privilege_type = 'delete').
This version is probably better suited to use within a script while the "show grants" syntax is better for interactive sessions (more "human readable").
mysql> show grants for 'user'#'host'
You could try this:
SELECT GRANTEE, PRIVILEGE_TYPE FROM information_schema.user_privileges;
SELECT User,Host,Db FROM mysql.db;
You might want to check out mk-show-grants from Maatkit, which will output the current set of grants for all users in a canonical form, making version control or replication more straightforward.
If you're already running a web server with PHP then phpMyAdmin is a fairly friendly administrative tool.
You may need to Show Grants Statement
SHOW GRANTS [FOR user]
This statement displays the privileges that are assigned to a MySQL user account, in the form of GRANT statements that must be executed to duplicate the privilege assignments.
To display the privileges granted to the current user (the account you are using to connect to the server), you can use any of the following statements:
SHOW GRANTS;
SHOW GRANTS FOR CURRENT_USER;
SHOW GRANTS FOR CURRENT_USER();
note:
SHOW GRANTS requires the SELECT privilege for the mysql system database, except to display privileges for the current user.\
It's directly from the official website
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I have a database that is used to store data for various applications. I want to grant users permissions to select data from these tables, however there is one table that has sensitive information that only one specific 'special' user should have access to.
How do i grant permissions to all tables EXCEPT that one table. If i grant all, then revoke on that table, it won't work as it says that there is no permission on that table.
I thought about writing a query that could do this, but what happens when tables are added to the database? I would have to go and add that permission to each of the users, which could get quite time consuming. Is there any way to do this easily in MySQL? Perhaps a trigger that on table creation grants permissions? Is that possible?
Put that table in a separate database. Then you can grant access to regulardb.* to all the normal users, and grant access to sensitivedb.specialtable only to the special username.
I have several DB's in my server, and I need to allow one user to select records from a view in one of the DB's. But I need for this user to not even see that there are other DB's nor see that there are other tables in the DB where the view belongs. Is this possible?
I had an account with a hosting company, a shared hosting account, and I could only see my DB when I accessed it through phpmyadmin. This is similar to what I need. Thank you for your help.
I've found the overview contained in this article even more helpful than the actual MySQL documentation for describing the big picture of how MySQL privileges are granted or denied.
The gist of the overview article is that privileges are controlled by a series of increasingly finer-grained permissions tables in the mysql database: mysql.user, mysql.db, mysql.host, mysql.tables_priv, mysql.columns_priv, mysql.procs_priv. The general rule is that a "Y" value for a privilege in a more fine-grained table overrules a "N" value in a more coarse-grained table. So the recommended strategy is to start by denying most privileges in the user table (which gives the coarsest control), and then make only the specific overrides that you want in the more fine-grained tables.
In particular, there is a privilege called SHOW_DATABASES which is determined by the Show_db_priv column in the mysql.user table; you'll want to set this to "N" for the user in question (and as described above, you may want to set most other permissions in the user table to "N" as well) and then grant only the privileges that the user actually needs in the mysql.db or mysql.tables_priv table or whatever would be appropriate for your particular case.
You have to add a user to a database using grant privileges.
Create new databases and simply don't add the user to it then the user won't be able to see it.
The only way the user will be able to find the database is if they try to access it and guess the database name. So basically a user/hacker would have to attempt to connect to a bunch of random database names in order to find one that says "access denied"
I'm fairly new to MySQL and I've been creating test tables, etc.
Anyway, I created a new user, using
CREATE USER 'myUser'#'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'myPassword';
Now, when I log into this user, I can SELECT from a table I created with root earlier. Surely this should not be possible? The user has no SELECT permissions, or indeed any permissions. If (logged in as root) I do either:
SHOW GRANTS FOR 'myUser'#'localhost';
Or
SELECT * FROM information_schema.user_privileges WHERE grantee LIKE "'myUser'#%";
I can see they only have USAGE permissions. My understanding is this permission is set to indicate a user has no permissions.
So how is this user able to SELECT from my table?
If I do:
SELECT * FROM information_schema.table_privileges;
No results are returned.
What am I missing here? Are certain things like SELECT implicitly granted to new users? Do I have to explicitly revoke this?
If so, what other permissions are implicitly granted?
Ideally what I'm aiming for is a user that can do nothing except run one (or more) stored procedures that I specify with GRANT EXECUTE ON.
It never even occurred to me that you would be creating production tables in a test schema -- but it turns out this is documented in the MySQL refman (emphasis added):
In addition, the mysql.db table contains rows that permit all accounts
to access the test database and other databases with names that start
with test_. This is true even for accounts that otherwise have no
special privileges such as the default anonymous accounts. This is
convenient for testing but inadvisable on production servers.
Administrators who want database access restricted only to accounts
that have permissions granted explicitly for that purpose should
remove these mysql.db table rows.
So that explains your find that "Either way, even with deleting it and then recreating it, if it has the name 'test', it will always be accessible to anonymous users, etc."
During my testing, I created a schema called 'test'. Unknown to me, 'test', is actually some sort of reserved database schema name for MySQL. Anonymous users can use it, etc.
As a result, the stuff I was creating in there for testing purposes didn't have certain permission restrictions that other databases would have done.
I can't really find any information on this beyond this page:
http://www.greensql.com/content/mysql-security-best-practices-hardening-mysql-tips
That page says that it comes with it, but I'm pretty sure my installation didn't have it by default.
Either way, even with deleting it and then recreating it, if it has the name 'test', it will always be accessible to anonymous users, etc.
I hope this helps someone, I spent too long puzzling over this!
I was hoping someone could help me with a mySQL / phpMyAdmin problem. (I don't even know if it is possible...)
Here is the problem:
I have 2 databases: DB1 and DB2
I have a user DB1user. This user has full access to DB1 and has select access to specific tables in DB2.
I was hoping that there was a way to hide DB2 from the user. I.e. when user types in 'SHOW DATABASES;', I would like that user to see only DB1. However, when user types in 'SELECT * FROM DB2.TABLE1;', he should see results of his query.
Is this possible? Doable?
Thanks for the help!
These two queries will restrict a user to a single database, so that the user can only see, update, and delete tables from that single database:
Replace USER with the MySQL username
Replace USERDATABASE with the single MySQL database you wish the user to have access to.
REVOKE ALL PRIVILEGES,GRANT OPTION from USER;
GRANT ALL ON USERDATABASE.* TO 'USER';
Did you try using the Privileges page in phpMyAdmin where you can create users and restrict their access to specific databases as well as operations?
Short version: How can I write an SQL procedure to list which of several tables in a MySQL database a particular user has access to?
Longer version:
I'm writing a multi-user app that accesses a database with data for several branches of a company. The database has a number of lookup tables that any user can access, and a table for each branch that only authorized users can access. My strategy is:
Write a stored procecure that returns a list of the relevant tables for which the user has SELECT privilege.
From the app, call the procedure. If there's only one table returned, use it, otherwise let the user select which branch they want to access (e.g. for managers).
I'm having trouble figuring out how to write such a stored procedure. SHOW GRANTS FOR CURRENT_USER is an obvious possibility, but parsing something like:
GRANT SELECT ON Company.BranchABC TO 'auser'#'%clientdomain.com'
in SQL to figure out what the tables are seems way too messy. Doing a SELECT from the actual tables that hold the permissions also seems problematic, because I'd have to duplicate MySQL's logic for combining the permissions from the various tables (user, db, host, etc.)
Any words of wisdom?
You can see what privileges on which tables a user has:
show grants for 'user'#'host';
For example, to see the privileges of user1 (all machines in the network 10.25), run:
show grants for 'user'#'10.25.%.%';
I have never granted per table permissions to MySQL users before, but to do this, you would check that the TABLE_PRIVILEGES table in the information_schema database.
That should point you in the right direction.
MySQL users list and its privilege can be check with the Query.
select * from mysql.user\G;
http://www.thedevheaven.com/2012/04/retrieve-mysql-users-list-and-its.html