I tried to create a user to grant access to a database hosted at amazon RDS, the user was created, but I can't access to the database that it has allowed to manage, here's the code I used:
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON my_db.* TO 'admin'#'my.rds.domain' IDENTIFIED BY
'xxxyyyzzz';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES ;
I ran that from my mysql client — DataGrid– also, I verified that the user was created using:
SELECT * FROM mysql.user;
And effectively, the user is listed.
Is there any special configuration I have to make at RDS console, or what?
In the GRANT command, 'admin'#'my.rds.domain' means that admin user connecting from my.rds.domain host is granted all privileges on my_db's all objects.
If this admin user attempts to log on from hostname abc.microsoft.com, no access will be given. If the hostname is not understood by MySQL server, it uses IP to form a user#hostname (e.g. 'admin'#'88.99.11.22'). If that entry is not in mysql.users table access will be denied.
If we use 'admin'#'%', it means that admin user logging in from any system is granted the rights. So when you changed hostname to %, access was granted. For better security, if you know that the user is going to log on from a particular IP or hostname only, it would be best to do like you did ('admin'#'hostname').
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I am logged into MySQL with a user with full admin privileges, and wish to update the root user to only allow login via localhost.
Currently, the root user has full privileges via 'root'#'%', and I'd like to change that to 'root'#'localhost'. I've tested this out on a local mysql install and it worked fine. However, in GCP Cloud SQL I'm unable to do so.
Running:
RENAME USER 'root'#'%' TO 'root'#'localhost';
Yields the error:
ERROR 1221 (HY000): Incorrect usage of RENAME and SYSTEM USER
Is there any way to achieve what I want to do in locking down where the root user can login from? I would like to avoid any MySQL downtime if possible. I am using MySQL 5.7.
As per the document, because Cloud SQL is a managed service, it restricts access to certain system procedures and tables that require advanced privileges and that includes restricting the hostname for the default root user account.
What I can suggest is that you create another MySQL user on cloud console. That user have the same privileges as the root user plus you'll be able to restrict the hostname or limit the privileges for this user. In a way you can say that Cloud SQL encourages you to create separate user accounts for different purposes because the root user is a very common target for unauthorized access.
I'm doing a web project and im using wamppserver to take care of the server and database. And now I'm facing a problem, I have to share the project. So it would be useful if i could share the specific DB that I use in the project, so that other people can access from their machines and get all the data previously stored in the DB. Is it possible to do it? How?
If you need to grant access to other machines to one database on local mysql server, you need to do some things:
You need to open MySQL to network interface: Check my.cnf, and do this:
Comment the line skip-networking.
Change the line bind-address to hold your LAN IP address / WAN IP address (if the machine itself have the WAN IP) / 0.0.0.0 (for all IPv4 addresses of the machine) / :: (for all IPv4 and IPv6 addresses of the machine). After reconfigure, restart MySQL server.
Check / configure your firewall for port 3306 opened (You can configure firewall for accept connections only from the required IPs) (Configuration for doing this will depend on your firewall software).
Grant access to the user(s) from the IPs you will need.
You can give access to one user from all IPs, for doing this, execute command [1] on MySQL cli or phpmyadmin, with a user with SUPER privileges (usually root).
You can give access to one user from one IP. Execute command [2].
[1]: GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON database.* TO 'user'#'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
[2]: GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON database.* TO 'user'#'host' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
You need to replace database with the name of the database to give privileges, user with the username accessing, host with the IP address of the client accessing, and password, with the desired password.
You can also, repeat command [2] if you want the same username to have access from two different IPs for example. Also, you can use a combination of [1] and [2], using a host with this example format: #'192.168.0.%', for giving access to these user from all computers on the 192.168.0.0/24 network.
Also, you can give really fine privileges, for example, changing GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES with GRANT SELECT, INSERT, these user only can do SELECT and INSERT statements, but not UPDATE or DELETE ones for example. You can check MySQL doc or StackOverflow for more info about this.
I've just tried to create a bunch of users for a (currently local) database but I'm having issues connecting to the database and not too sure what I'm doing wrong.
The users exist after creation but I can't connect to the database with their credentials while using Workbench for connection testing.
I've created my users and then granted them permission straight after as so:
CREATE USER 'username'#'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
GRANT ALL ON DATABASE.* TO 'username'#'%';
If I run SELECT * FROM mysql.user; to see the users, I can see that the users are there.
I've tried flushing privileges but it doesn't seem to make any difference.
When trying to connect to the server via Workbench as one of the users I've created I get re-prompted for my password. It then seems to either hang or tell me the password is wrong.
This is initially local for development purposes but I'll be setting this up on a server once I've got this working. Could this be down to it being ran locally?
As mentioned in the MySQL documentation for adding users, when connecting locally a user must be created #'localhost' as well as to wildcard locations:
Two of the accounts have a user name of monty and a password of
some_pass. Both accounts are superuser accounts with full privileges
to do anything. The 'monty'#'localhost' account can be used only when
connecting from the local host. The 'monty'#'%' account uses the '%'
wildcard for the host part, so it can be used to connect from any
host.
It is necessary to have both accounts for monty to be able to connect
from anywhere as monty. Without the localhost account, the
anonymous-user account for localhost that is created by
mysql_install_db would take precedence when monty connects from the
local host. As a result, monty would be treated as an anonymous user.
The reason for this is that the anonymous-user account has a more
specific Host column value than the 'monty'#'%' account and thus comes
earlier in the user table sort order. (user table sorting is discussed
in Section 6.2.4, “Access Control, Stage 1: Connection Verification”.)
With a user only being denoted with a host name of '%' to allow for connection anywhere MySQL will instead use the anonymous <anonymous>''#'localhost' account because it will attempt to match the localhost location first and then not find the related user name for localhost and so use the <anonymous> user instead.
Alternatively, the anonymous user can be deleted and this should also fix the problem rather than having to duplicate users.
I have a created user in my MySQL database:
CREATE USER 'user'#'host' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
I have granted that user full privileges:
GRANT ALL ON *.* to 'user'#'host';
Echoing the grant:
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'user'#'host' IDENTIFIED BY PASSWORD '*03FFC888F82E921D8CA360925A8F443CF326DE89'
I can connect from MySQL workbench using this login credential w/o any issues and execute queries. And it's running on the same machine the web application is running on. MySQL instance is running on another computer in the same local network.
However, when I try to use the same credentials from my web application running in Tomcat7 under Eclipse I receive the error. Please advise.
Note: As of last night, the web application was able to connect just fine. With nothing changing (that I am aware of - I am only one working on this), this morning I could not connect.
RESOLVED:
I added the user with grants using the IP address for the host for the local machine.
I am not sure what changed on the server, but now I am able to connect again.
Would someone possibly be able to explain this change, and with it why I am now required to use the IP address when previously the local host name was sufficient?
Make sure you are using the appropriate hostname, and you're accessing from that host, the user can't connect from another host.
To give permission you must put the password unencrypted.
Example
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON test. * TO 'root' # 'localhost'
IDENTIFIED BY 'goodsecret';
Also must be the same password when you create the user.
Here How adding users to MySQL
Note: For more information on GRANT here is the documentation.
Hope this helps
In mySql, as far as my understanding goes, its possible for us to grant privileges for same user name from different hosts. eg. user 'karthick' # localhost could be assigned privileges different from user 'karthick' # madhost.com
But, will it be possible to connect to a database with same user name and from same host but with different privileges? For eg. like fopen("file.txt","r") & fopen("file.txt","w");
will we be able to connect to database from the same host with the same username but different privileges?
To my knowledge, you can assign different privileges for the same user, but not on to the same database on the server. If you could, the server would not know which set of permissions to use. If it is on a different server, it will just be a new user which has the same username and password. They won't be linked in any other way.