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Agenda

• Privileges

• Levels of Privileges

• Types of Privileges in MySQL

• Administrative Privileges

• Database-Access Privileges

• Other Privileges

• Revoking Privileges

• Changing Account Passwords

• When does Privilege Changes Take Effect

• Specifying Resource Limits

• Privileges Needed for Account Management

Privileges

• Privilege refer to authority to perform a given task on an object.

• An account that needs read access can be given only the SELECT privilege.

• An account that needs to modify data can be given the DELETE, INSERT, and UPDATE

privileges.

• Administrative accounts can be given the PROCESS or SUPER privileges for viewing client

process activity or killing connections, or the SHUTDOWN privilege for stopping the server.

Levels of Privileges

• Any privilege can be granted globally. An account with a global privilege can exercise it at any

time.

• Some privileges can be granted for specific databases:

ALTER, CREATE, CREATE TEMPORARY TABLES, CREATE VIEW, DELETE, DROP, GRANT

OPTION, INDEX, INSERT, LOCK TABLES, SELECT, SHOW VIEW, and UPDATE.

A database-level privilege applies to all tables and stored routines in the database.

• Some privileges can be granted for specific tables:

ALTER, CREATE, DELETE, DROP, GRANT OPTION, INDEX, INSERT, SELECT, and UPDATE.

A table-level privilege applies to all columns in the table.

• Some privileges can be granted for specific table columns:

INSERT, SELECT, and UPDATE.

• Some privileges can be granted for specific stored routines:

EXECUTE, ALTER ROUTINE, and GRANT OPTION.

Types of Privileges in MySQL

• You can grant several types of privileges to a MySQL account, and you can grant privileges at

different levels.

For example, you can allow a user to select from any table in any database by granting the SELECT

privilege at the global level.

• Or you might grant an account no global privileges, but give it complete control over a specific

database.

That allows the account to create the database and tables in it, select from the tables, and add new

records, delete them, or update them.

Administrative Privileges:

• Privilege Operations Allowed by Privilege

• CREATE TEMPORARY TABLES Use TEMPORARY with CREATE TABLE

• CREATE USER Create, drop, rename accounts

• FILE Use statements that read or write files on the server host

• LOCK TABLES Explicitly lock tables with LOCK TABLES

• PROCESS View process (thread) activity

• RELOAD Use FLUSH and RESET

• REPLICATION CLIENT Ask server for information about replication hosts

• REPLICATION SLAVE Act as a replication slave

• SHOW DATABASES See all database names with SHOW DATABASES

• SHUTDOWN Shut down the server

• SUPER Miscellaneous administrative operations

Database-Access Privileges

• Privilege Operations Allowed by Privilege

• ALTER Modify tables with ALTER TABLE

• ALTER ROUTINE Alter or drop stored routines

• CREATE Create databases and tables

• CREATE ROUTINE Create stored routines

• CREATE VIEW Create views

• DELETE Remove rows from tables

• DROP Drop databases and tables

• EXECUTE Execute stored routines

• GRANT OPTION Grant privileges to other accounts

• INDEX Create and drop indexes

Database-Access Privileges

• INSERT Add rows to tables

• SELECT Select records from tables

• SHOW VIEW Use SHOW CREATE VIEW

• UPDATE Modify records in tables

Other Privileges

• ALL and ALL PRIVILEGES are shorthand for "all privileges except GRANT OPTION.”.

• USAGE means "no privileges" other than being allowed to connect to the server.

• Granting this "privilege" causes a record to be created in the user table for the account, but withoutany privileges.

• This causes the account to exist, and it can then be used to access the server for limited purposessuch as issuing SHOW VARIABLES or SHOW STATUS statements.

• The account cannot be used to access database contents such as tables.

Revoking Privileges

• Use the REVOKE statement to revoke privileges from an account. Its syntax has:

• The keyword REVOKE followed by the list of privileges to be revoked

• An ON clause indicating the level at which privileges are to be revoked

• A FROM clause that specifies the account name

Suppose that sangwan@localhost has SELECT, DELETE, INSERT, and UPDATE privileges on world,but you want to change the account so that he has SELECT access only use:

REVOKE DELETE, INSERT, UPDATE ON world.* FROM 'sangwan'@'localhost';

Revoking Privileges Contd..

• To revoke the GRANT OPTION privilege from an account that has it, you must revoke it in aseparate statement.

For example, if stephen has the ability to grant his privileges for the world database to other users, youcan revoke using:

REVOKE GRANT OPTION ON world.* FROM ‘stephen'@'localhost';

• To revoke all privileges held by an account at any level, REVOKE supports a special syntax(note that this form of REVOKE has no ON clause):

REVOKE ALL PRIVILEGES, GRANT OPTION FROM 'amit'@'localhost';

• To determine what REVOKE statements are needed to revoke an account's privileges, useSHOW GRANTS :

mysql> SHOW GRANTS FOR 'ramniwas'@'myhost.example.com';

Revoking Privileges Contd..

• To remove some or all of these privileges, use REVOKE statement.

• The privilege names, privilege levels, and account name must be the same as displayed bySHOW GRANTS. :mysql> REVOKE FILE ON *.* FROM 'ramniwas'@'myhost.example.com';

mysql> REVOKE UPDATE ON test.mytable FROM 'ramniwas'@'myhost.example.com';

Revoking Privileges Contd..

• If you use REVOKE to remove all the privileges enabled by a record in the db tables_priv,

columns_priv, or procs_priv tables, REVOKE removes the record entirely.

• However, REVOKE does not remove an account's user table record, even if you revoke all

privileges for the account.

• This means that although the account no longer has any privileges, it still exists and thus can

be used to connect to the server.

• If you want to eliminate all traces of an account from the grant tables, you should use the

DROP USER statement instead.

Changing Account Passwords

• Use the SET PASSWORD, specifying the account name and the new password:

SET PASSWORD FOR 'sangwan'@'localhost' = PASSWORD('NewPass');

• Any non-anonymous client can change its own password by omitting the FOR clause:

SET PASSWORD = PASSWORD('NewPass');

• Use GRANT with the USAGE privilege specifier at the global level and an IDENTIFIED BY

clause:

GRANT USAGE ON *.* TO 'sangwan'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'NewPass';

• USAGE means "no privileges," so the statement changes the password without granting any

privileges.

• To allow a user to connect without specifying a password, change the password to the empty

string.

• However, you cannot "revoke" the password this way with REVOKE.

When does Privilege Changes Take Effect

• When you change the grant tables with an account-management statement, the effects ofchanges apply to existing client connections as follows:

• Table and column privilege changes apply to all statements issued after the changes aremade.

• Database privilege changes apply with the next USE statement.

• Changes to global privileges and passwords do not apply to a connected client. They applythe next time the client attempts to connect.

Specifying Resource Limits

• By default, there is no limit on the number of times a client can connect to the server or thenumber of queries it can issue. If that is not suitable, GRANT can establish limits on anaccount's resource consumption for the following characteristics:

• The number of times per hour the account is allowed to connect to the server

• The number of queries per hour the account is allowed to issue

• The number of updates per hour the account is allowed to issue

• The number of times the account can connect simultaneously to the server

Specifying Resource Limits Contd..

• Each of these resource limits is specified using an option in a WITH clause.

• The following example creates an account that can use the test database, but can connect tothe server a maximum of only 10 times per hour.

• The account can issue 50 queries per hour, and at most 20 of those queries can modify data:GRANT ALL ON test.* TO 'quinn'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'SomePass'

WITH MAX_CONNECTIONS_PER_HOUR 10

MAX_QUERIES_PER_HOUR 50

MAX_UPDATES_PER_HOUR 20;

• The order in which you name the options in the WITH clause does not matter.

Specifying Resource Limits Contd..

• To reset an existing limit for any of the per-hour resources to the default of "no limit," specify avalue of zero.

GRANT USAGE ON *.* TO 'quinn'@'localhost'

WITH MAX_CONNECTIONS_PER_HOUR 0;

• The MAX_USER_CONNECTIONS limit also can be set to zero to set it to the default.However, that does not mean "no limit." Instead, when this resource is set to zero, the valuethat applies to the account is the value of the max_user_connections system variable.

Privileges Needed for Account Management

• CREATE USER requires the CREATE USER privilege or the INSERT privilege

• DROP USER requires the CREATE USER privilege or the DELETE privilege

• RENAME USER requires the CREATE USER privilege or the UPDATE privilege

Privileges Needed for Account Management

• GRANT requires the GRANT OPTION privilege, and you also must have the privileges thatyou are granting.

• REVOKE without ALL PRIVILEGES requires the GRANT OPTION privilege, and you alsomust have the privileges that you are revoking.

• REVOKE ALL PRIVILEGES requires the CREATE USER privilege or the UPDATE privilegefor the mysql database.

• Use of SET PASSWORD to change another account's password requires the CREATE USERprivilege or the UPDATE privilege.

• Any non-anonymous client can use SET PASSWORD to change the password for its ownaccount, and no special privileges are required.

• SHOW GRANTS requires the SELECT privilege for the mysql database to see anotheraccount's grants.

• It requires no special privileges to see the grants for your own account.

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