New user has all privileges in MySQL 5.6 - mysql

I have a problem when I create a new user in mySQL 5.6
What I want:
When I create the new user, it doesn't have any privileges, and I just want to grant some select and update in a few specific columns. So he should be able to update just anything at all the DB. Sounds fair.
So, first, I create a new user:
CREATE USER 'newuser'#'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
After this, I log in with my new user and when I do a show grants; command I have this:
GRANT USAGE ON *.* TO 'newuser'#'%' IDENTIFIED BY PASSWORD '*2470C0C06DEE42FD1618BB99005ADCA2EC9D1E19'
So in my theory he cant do anything in my database bacause he doesn't have any GRANT SELECT privilege.
But when I do a select in my test table he can view all columns and all results. He can update ... and do everything he wants to. It's like he have a GRANT SELECT,UPDATE,DELETE ... ON *.* TO 'newuser'#'%' but I can't revoke that because he doesn't have that.
Of course, I've tried to revoke all privileges, but I can't because he doesn't have any privileges.
I hope i'm clear. So I'm confused, any ideas?
Thanks!
Clément

In many default installations, all users have all privileges on tables within any database called test or beginning with test_.
From http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/default-privileges.html#idp5999952 :
By default, the mysql.db table contains rows that permit access by any user to the test database and other databases with names that start with test_. ...If you want to remove any-user access to test databases, do so as follows:
mysql> DELETE FROM mysql.db WHERE Db LIKE 'test%';
mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
Alternatively, make sure that your test table isn't in a database with such a name, and then you'll see the true behaviour.

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Grant privileges on database names matching a pattern

I want to create a mysql user who can only access databases which have names starting with netdata_. I use the following statement to create such user:
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON `netdata_*`.* TO netdata#"%" IDENTIFIED BY "My_Top_Secret";
However, with this user netdata, I can see nothing other than the information_schema. So is there anything wrong in my grant statement? Thanks.

Stop mySQL GRANT ALL, not just erasing

Imagine that I run this command:
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'user'#'host';
Now in every new DB, the user has full access.
The question is, imagine that at some point I want that those . privileges don't apply to new databases.
Is that possible?
I just thought about erasing user and GRANT privileges to the last db's created but it could be quite hard if there are a lot of them... and I wondered if there was a "REVOKE from now on ..." hidden from google command.
Try this, it helped me may be you too
REVOKE ALL on dbName.* from 'user'#'host';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
try this:
REVOKE ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* FROM user [, user] ...
REVOKE GRANT OPTION ON *.* FROM user [, user] ...
https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/4.1/en/revoke.html
maybe you should try this
REVOKE [type of permission] ON [database name].[table name] FROM ‘[username]’#‘localhost’;
ALL PRIVILEGES- this would allow a MySQL user all access to a designated database (or if no database is selected, across the system)
CREATE- allows them to create new tables or databases
DROP- allows them to them to delete tables or databases
DELETE- allows them to delete rows from tables
INSERT- allows them to insert rows into tables
SELECT- allows them to use the Select command to read through databases
UPDATE- allow them to update table rows
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-create-a-new-user-and-grant-permissions-in-mysql

mysql - How to grant read only permissions to a user?

I have a mysql user, whom I want to grant all the READ permission on a db schema.
One way is this :
GRANT SELECT, SHOW_VIEW ON test.* TO 'readuser'#'%';
Is there a way to group all read operations in grant ?
If there is any single privilege that stands for ALL READ operations on database.
It depends on how you define "all read."
"Reading" from tables and views is the SELECT privilege. If that's what you mean by "all read" then yes:
GRANT SELECT ON *.* TO 'username'#'host_or_wildcard' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
However, it sounds like you mean an ability to "see" everything, to "look but not touch." So, here are the other kinds of reading that come to mind:
"Reading" the definition of views is the SHOW VIEW privilege.
"Reading" the list of currently-executing queries by other users is the PROCESS privilege.
"Reading" the current replication state is the REPLICATION CLIENT privilege.
Note that any or all of these might expose more information than you intend to expose, depending on the nature of the user in question.
If that's the reading you want to do, you can combine any of those (or any other of the available privileges) in a single GRANT statement.
GRANT SELECT, SHOW VIEW, PROCESS, REPLICATION CLIENT ON *.* TO ...
However, there is no single privilege that grants some subset of other privileges, which is what it sounds like you are asking.
If you are doing things manually and looking for an easier way to go about this without needing to remember the exact grant you typically make for a certain class of user, you can look up the statement to regenerate a comparable user's grants, and change it around to create a new user with similar privileges:
mysql> SHOW GRANTS FOR 'not_leet'#'localhost';
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Grants for not_leet#localhost |
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| GRANT SELECT, REPLICATION CLIENT ON *.* TO 'not_leet'#'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY PASSWORD '*xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx' |
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)
Changing 'not_leet' and 'localhost' to match the new user you want to add, along with the password, will result in a reusable GRANT statement to create a new user.
Of, if you want a single operation to set up and grant the limited set of privileges to users, and perhaps remove any unmerited privileges, that can be done by creating a stored procedure that encapsulates everything that you want to do. Within the body of the procedure, you'd build the GRANT statement with dynamic SQL and/or directly manipulate the grant tables themselves.
In this recent question on Database Administrators, the poster wanted the ability for an unprivileged user to modify other users, which of course is not something that can normally be done -- a user that can modify other users is, pretty much by definition, not an unprivileged user -- however -- stored procedures provided a good solution in that case, because they run with the security context of their DEFINER user, allowing anybody with EXECUTE privilege on the procedure to temporarily assume escalated privileges to allow them to do the specific things the procedure accomplishes.
GRANT SELECT ON *.* TO 'user'#'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
This will create a user with SELECT privilege for all database including Views.
Note for MySQL 8 it's different
You need to do it in two steps:
CREATE USER 'readonly_user'#'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'some_strong_password';
GRANT SELECT, SHOW VIEW ON *.* TO 'readonly_user'#'localhost';
flush privileges;
Various permissions that you can grant to a user are
ALL PRIVILEGES- This would allow a MySQL user all access to a designated database (or if no database is selected, across the system)
CREATE- allows them to create new tables or databases
DROP- allows them to them to delete tables or databases
DELETE- allows them to delete rows from tables
INSERT- allows them to insert rows into tables
SELECT- allows them to use the Select command to read through databases
UPDATE- allow them to update table rows
GRANT OPTION- allows them to grant or remove other users' privileges
To provide a specific user with a permission, you can use this framework:
GRANT [type of permission] ON [database name].[table name] TO ‘[username]’#'localhost’;
I found this article very helpful
A step by step guide I found here.
To create a read-only database user account for MySQL
At a UNIX prompt, run the MySQL command-line program, and log in as an administrator by typing the following command:
mysql -u root -p
Type the password for the root account.
At the mysql prompt, do one of the following steps:
To give the user access to the database from any host, type the following command:
grant select on database_name.* to 'read-only_user_name'#'%' identified by 'password';
If the collector will be installed on the same host as the database, type the following command:
grant select on database_name.* to 'read-only_user_name' identified by 'password';
This command gives the user read-only access to the database from the local host only.
If you know the host name or IP address of the host that the collector is will be installed on, type the following command:
grant select on database_name.* to 'read-only_user_name'#'host_name or IP_address' identified by 'password';
The host name must be resolvable by DNS or by the local hosts file.
At the mysql prompt, type the following command:
flush privileges;
Type quit.
The following is a list of example commands and confirmation messages:
mysql> grant select on dbname.* to 'readonlyuser'#'%' identified
by 'pogo$23';
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.11 sec)
mysql> flush privileges;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)
mysql> quit
Even user has got answer and #Michael - sqlbot has covered mostly points very well in his post but one point is missing, so just trying to cover it.
If you want to provide read permission to a simple user (Not admin kind of)-
GRANT SELECT, EXECUTE ON DB_NAME.* TO 'user'#'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'PASSWORD';
Note: EXECUTE is required here, so that user can read data if there is a stored procedure which produce a report (have few select statements).
Replace localhost with specific IP from which user will connect to DB.
Additional Read Permissions are-
SHOW VIEW : If you want to show view schema.
REPLICATION CLIENT : If user need to check replication/slave status.
But need to give permission on all DB.
PROCESS : If user need to check running process. Will work with all
DB only.
If you want the view to be read only after granting the read permission you can use the ALGORITHM = TEMPTABLE in you view DDL definition.
solution: here's some useful cookbook for creating a readonly user on mysql.
# 1. connect as an admin on database / cluster
mysql -u root -h mydb.123456789012.us-east-1.rds.amazonaws.com
# 2. create user protected with strong password with global access ('%') or local access ('localhost')
mysql> CREATE USER 'ro_user'#'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'abcd1234%^&#';
# 3. grant SELECT privileges for relevant user
mysql> GRANT SELECT ON *.* TO 'ro_user'#'%' WITH GRANT OPTION;
# 4. reload grant tables on database
mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
# 5. verify grant are placed as expected
mysql> show grants for 'ro_user'#'%';
// output:
// +------------------------------------------------------+
// | Grants for ro_user#% |
// +------------------------------------------------------+
// | GRANT SELECT ON *.* TO 'ro_user'#'%' WITH GRANT OPTION |
// +------------------------------------------------------+
// 1 row in set (0.00 sec)
mysql> exit

Revoke privileges from user in mySQL

For every new user we create in mySQL using the statement
CREATE USER newuser#localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
"SHOW GRANTS" is showing only "USAGE ON *.* " privilege.
But the user is able to select,insert,.. on "test" and "information_schema" databases and I'm unable to revoke these privileges on "test" using the revoke statement given below.
REVOKE ALL ON test.* FROM newuser#localhost;
ERROR 1141 (42000) : There is no such grant defined for user 'guest' on host 'localhost'
I just don't want the newuser to access the test and information_schema databases.
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/default-privileges.html
By default, the mysql.db table contains rows that permit access by
any user to the test database and other databases with names that
start with test_. (...) This means that
such databases can be used even by accounts that otherwise possess no
privileges. If you want to remove any-user access to test databases,
do so as follows:
mysql> DELETE FROM mysql.db WHERE Db LIKE 'test%';
mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
(...)
With the preceding change, only users who have global database
privileges or privileges granted explicitly for the test database can
use it.
The information_schema database is a read-only pseudo database built on-the-fly on request. Users will always be able to consult this database, but it only presents entries to which they already have access to otherwise.

MySql grant user permission

I want to create a new user in MySql. I do not want that new user to do much with my existing databases [I just want to grant Select privilege to him], but he can do anything and everything with a new database which he creates.
Firstly, is there a way to grant permission as per the database owner? If it is possible, then that is the ideal thing I am looking for. And if not, then how do I restrict a particular user from accessing [only Select privilege] some specific database only, allowing him to do anything he wants with the remaining ones?
From the MySQL grant documentation:
CREATE USER 'jeffrey'#'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'mypass';
GRANT SELECT ON *.* TO 'jeffrey'#'localhost';
GRANT ALL ON db1.* TO 'jeffrey'#'localhost';
The first command creates the user. The second grants select on all databases and tables. The third command grants all access to all tables in db1.
Is there anything else specific you are looking to do?
To provide a specific user with a permission, you can use this framework:
GRANT [type of permission] ON [database name].[table name] TO ‘[username]’#'localhost’;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON * . * TO 'newuser'#'localhost';
The asterisks in this command refer to the database and table (respectively) that they can access—this specific command allows to the user to read, edit, execute and perform all tasks across all the databases and tables.
Once you have finalized the permissions that you want to set up for your new users, always be sure to reload all the privileges.
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
For more about permission you can read this article
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-create-a-new-user-and-grant-permissions-in-mysql
For the list of permissions, see the MySQL Manual page Privileges Provided by MySQL.
Open mysql command prompt.
To create a new user when host is localhost then use this command
CREATE user 'test_user'#'localhost' identified by 'some_password';
for any host use %, like this
CREATE user 'test_user'#'%' identified by 'some_password';
Once the user is created, you need to Grant some access. Use following command for this.
GRANT SELECT,INSERT,UPDATE
ON database_name.table_name
TO 'test_user'#'localhost';
After successful execution of above query, test_user can select, insert and update in table_name (name of table) of database_name (name of database).
grant privilege is given in data base like this
grant privilege on object to user
object is any data base table or relation and user might be the whom the privilege is provided to him.
Example
grant select,insert,update,on object name to user name
grant select on employee to john with grant option;
revoke delete on employee from john.