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February 3rd, 2002, 11:02 PM

yorktown

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Special permissions for user

I have a server and I need to add a new user who will have telnet access to ONLY 1 or 2 MYSQL databases and not the others.

He also will have FTP access as well.

I don't want to give him my username and password for obvious security reasons.

I was told that a new user can be set up with special permissions, but I don't know exactly how to do it.

I am running the following:

FreeBSD (latest version)
MySQL (latest version)
Apache (latest version)

Please let me know how to make a special setup for this user.

Regards,

February 3rd, 2002, 11:33 PM

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Just RTFM via man 8 adduser. Then he should be able to telnet/ftp immediately. For MySQL, you need to add another user (him).

You keep saying special permissions in your duplicated posts (in other forums), how special exactly?

February 4th, 2002, 08:41 PM

munkfish

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For the MySQL side - from the manual:

Quote:

You can add new users by issuing GRANT statements:

shell> mysql --user=root mysql
mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO monty@localhost
IDENTIFIED BY 'some_pass' WITH GRANT OPTION;
mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO monty@"%"
IDENTIFIED BY 'some_pass' WITH GRANT OPTION;
mysql> GRANT RELOAD,PROCESS ON *.* TO admin@localhost;
mysql> GRANT USAGE ON *.* TO dummy@localhost;

See here: http://www.mysql.com/doc/A/d/Adding_users.html
cf: http://www.mysql.com/udmsearch/sear...?q=add+new+user

To only allow a user, monty, access to the db called 'montydb' just do:

Code:

mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON montydb.* TO monty@localhost /
           IDENTIFIED BY 'some_pass' WITH GRANT OPTION;

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