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Understand Permissions Granted to a User in MySQL

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In MySQL, you can know the permissions granted to an user using the following statement.

We will now use this code to find the permissions available for user user_admin. This example is for illustration only.

mysqlSHOW GRANTS FOR user_admin

Sample output:

+--------------------------------------------------------+| Grants for user_admin@%                                |+--------------------------------------------------------+| GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON `db1`.* TO 'user_admin'@'%'    || GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON `db2`.* TO 'user_admin'@'%'    || GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON `db3`.* TO 'user_admin'@'%'    |+--------------------------------------------------------+

The output above indicates that the user user_admin has all privileges on the databases db1, db2, db3.

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