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Understanding the GRANTS for the Current User in MySQL

Understanding the GRANTS for the Current User in MySQL

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The command “SHOW GRANTS” will display the privileges that the current user has.

Command: SHOW GRANTSSample output:+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+|Grants for dbuser@%                                                                                               |+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+|  GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'dbuser'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY PASSWORD '*03E51IIDCEYB2B07FF7A98489A5C0E905A7087BC'  |+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

You can master the GRANT command to have varied output. Be cautious while using GRANT as you may be restricting the permission(s) to the user.

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