How do I prevent WAN access to a particular database in SQLyog? I am able to grant full access to particular DB's, but not able to prevent them. I have a Web APP that runs on an internal server and accesses MySQL on the same server. I have created a SQL user with my workstations IP, but I am receiving access denied from dbconnect when I run the APP from my workstation.
Thanks,
Tony Cripps
MySQL does not allow connections from anything other than what you've specified. If you want to disallow access from a particular IP or network, then that mean that you've already gone and granted access to them.
Review the CREATE USER syntax, particularly the section on specifying hostnames.
Review the user accounts that you've already created:
SELECT user, host, password FROM mysql.user;
And then re-create them as necessary.
Other than than that, if you want to completely disallow WAN access then you should be looking at your firewall settings, not MySQL.
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I would like to allow one of my mysql database access from an external, however I would like to restrict it to be access from 1 ip only. Is there any way to do so:
only apply the setting to 1 database
only allow access to that database from a specific ip
My server is ubuntu 16.
thank you!
A MySQL user can be created for a specific origin address:
CREATE USER bob#'202.1.1.3' IDENTIFIED BY 'very very secure password';
GRANT ALL ON db.* TO bob#'202.1.1.3'
Provided no other GRANTS are given to db, then the bob user from '202.1.1.2' is the only allowed user.
Its generally more secure to give a ssh tunnel access, or access on a non-standard port however. Publicly accessible database servers will have their authentication brute forced.
I have a hosted MySql server with many databases each with many views. I access the server remotely from my office using HeidiSql.
Once in a while the IP address of my office changes. When this happens, I have to add the new office IP address to the server using cPanel and the "Remote MySql" tool so that I can remotely connect again.
However, all of the views have definer: USER#OLD_IP_ADDRESS. If I need to change a view, I get Access Denied. Up to now, I have been deleting the view (yes, i can delete the view) and recreating it, which makes the view's definer USER#NEW_IP_ADDRESS, and then I can edit the view -- until the Ip address changes again.
So, my question is: What is the best practice is an environment like this. Is there a way to define the views once and, without causing a security risk, be able to edit the views after an IP Address change.
Thanks for any guidance.
You could loosen the host in the MySQL user account a bit, according to the IP range of your internet provider. That way, you don't need to change it every time you get a slightly different IP:
user#123.456.789.%
user#123.456.%
This of course loosens the security in this account, but if your password is be a good one, it should not be too risky.
A better way is to make the MySQL server only accessible via SSH. In that case, your MySQL server can be set up using the --skip-networking option, as you always connecting from localhost. Your user account can be user#localhost or user#127.0.0.1, which then would solve your above mentioned problem for all times.
HeidiSQL also supports SSH tunneled MySQL connections, see here for some tutorial.
It seems that the web server is preventing me to change permissions to the user. It does not allow me to GRANT ALL ON foo.* TO bar#'202.54.10.20' IDENTIFIED BY 'PASSWORD'; and returns an error message of access denied for the username that I'm using.
It also appears that the folder etc in the file manager is empty whereas in the given link below, it shows that the bind address can be edited in the my.cnf inside etc folder.
How do I allow my mysql database to be accessible remotely by any computer?
http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/how-do-i-enable-remote-access-to-mysql-database-server.html
The bind option in my.cnf is not that problem (since you can connect, the MySQL server is just not letting you in), and judging from the screenshot, you don't seem to have the permissions to edit that file anyways.
Most likely, your request is not coming from 202.54.10.20, or you have mistyped username/password. If the web application runs on the same machine as the MySQL server, connections will come from somewhere in the 127.0.0.0/8 range.
Look at the connection string in your web application:
If it is a public IP address, check username/password and originating IP.
If it starts with 127., GRANT to your local address.
If it is localhost, you're connecting via Unix socket instead of TCP. This is a good thing, and you can simply GRANT to localhost.
To issue this command:
GRANT ALL ON foo.* TO bar#'202.54.10.20' IDENTIFIED BY 'PASSWORD';
You MUST connect to the database first. So if you don't have permissions to remotely access database, you should go to the database server host and login locally, using root#localhost.
I just found out that there is an option which basically do the same thing as what I wanted it to be doing. There is an option for the user to enable remote database access to its clients.
I'm making a winforms app in vb.net that connects to a mysql database on my webserver to read and write data, this all works fine.
But i have to allow the users ip to remote connect to the database.
Is it possible to give everyone access to the database? The user account will not have all rights an the data isn't very important if it got lost.
The user account and connection details are hard coded.
I know this isnt secure but that doesnt really matter.
Yes, that's very well possible. In your mysql privileges table you'll have to grant a wildcard (%) host access to the user. Then in your VB.NET code simply use the address in the connectionString.
Yes, you can GRANT permissions on the database to the same user with wildcards in the host. More information here.
You can specify wildcards in the host name. For example, user_name#'%.example.com' applies to user_name for any host in the example.com domain, and user_name#'192.168.1.%' applies to user_name for any host in the 192.168.1 class C subnet.
The simple form user_name is a synonym for user_name#'%'.
That way every application connects to the database from random hosts and uses the same username/password in the connection string to authenticate, and MySQL will allow it because the host part of the permissions isn't explicitly specified.
But i have to allow the users ip to remote connect to the database.
Why?
Two other options:
1 - Expose the data as a web service. It's already on the web server...
2 - Build a web app instead of a desktop app.
Currently user using connections to both TEST and PROD instances using MS Access, and everything goes well. By using ABC user. Now user having problems with APPS user in TEST .
Also, user having the same problem with user XYZ in PROD instance. This user has the ‘SELECT ANY TABLE’ privilege, so it should be able to see the tables, but doesn’t work from MS Access.
Please suggest us.
If you're able to connect via a SQL connection (I'm assuming ODBC) then you'll be using a predefined set of credentials (i.e. you'll be passing a username and password to Access; probably through the connection string).
Chances are that if your user is unable to get into the database directly, their network (AD?) account is not configured with the same elevated privileges that the ODBC connection has.