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MySQL User / Host Table Questions

1.) Should I have to restart MySQL every time I change the “user” table? (Windows 2003, MySQL 5.0) It seems I have to for the changes to take effect.

2.) What about using a subnet or wildcard in the host column? I’ve been unsuccessful with using 192.168.1.*

3.) How do I grant a user access from multiple hosts? Do I put all hosts into the Host field, like “localhost,192.168.1.100”? Do I have to create a new user row for every user / host combination I want to allow? This seems counter productive to me because now I have multiple users with the same names, and potentially different passwords.

Thanks for the help and pointers here.

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Raynard7

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ASKER

thanks for the quick reply Raynard7! So is it unadvisable to give a user a pure "%" access? Usually I'll want only home, work, and LAN connections for each user. (Thus, best security says 3 rows for each user - right)

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ASKER

1.) flush privileges: great - works!

2.) % sign: great - works!

3.) will need to test a little bit on this one.

Raynard7

Hi,

This all depends on your security model.

On most of my machines I have only localhost priv's for my users.

This is because they use business objects to query the database or are using it through a web front end - where they do not need remote use.

For other users who have access to everything I just grant all priviledges from all hosts.

Generally - the "default" user access model would be as I described above - select from % - some access from LAN and some more access from localhost (if applicable)

Raynard7

Normally you would not give access for say dropping tables from % or from the lan but you may want someone who is trusted to have access to local host to be able to execute that function... as an example

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ASKER

Thanks. So if I want "myself" to be a user that is allowed on localhost and on the LAN - I have to create two completely seperate users - right?

Raynard7

if you want yourself to be on the lan - and on localhost but not from anywhere else you would need to use two lines in the user table.

You could also do

Grant all on % to myself@localhost;
Grant all on % to myself@192.168.0.%;

which would have the same effect

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ASKER

Thanks much Raynard! You've definately more than answered my questions!

Raynard7

glad I could help