[ale] [Slightly OT] Simple(?) MySQL question

[James Sumners]

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON fd0man_%.* TO fd0man at somehost IDENTIFIED BY 'password';

I imagine that would work. Also, you don't have to subscribe to a new
list to ask such a question. The folks in #mysql on freenode are
usually very helpful.

On 6/13/05, Michael B. Trausch <fd0man at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Having searched about, before subscribing to a new specialty list to ask
> what I rather suspect to be a fairly stupid question, I'm going to ask
> it here:  How in the *world* do you get it so that a MySQL user can only
> see, create, manipulate databases that are their MySQL username, an
> underscore, and their database name?  I've seen this in use in places
> before, where if my MySQL username is fd0man, the only databases I
> create have to be in my own "namespace", e.g.:
> 
>         fd0man_webusers
>         fd0man_phonedb
> 
> Or whatever.  I would then have full permissions to those databases, and
> zero permissions to anything else.  I thought the solution to this
> problem would be to grant full permissions on 'fd0man_%' and have no
> permission to the MySQL database 'mysql' or any other databases on the
> system (e.g., 'mtrausch_%', for example).  However, I can still login to
> something like phpMyAdmin and see everything.  I only want to see what I
> am allowed to see.
> 
> I know it's possible; the question really just is, how?  And why doesn't
> simple searches from Google yield me a result?  Perhaps I'm just too
> stupid to figure out the keywords... I'm still working on that, though.
> 
>         - Mike
> 
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