How To Create a New User and Grant Permissions in MySQL

1. Login to mysql

mysql -u username -p

2. Create user

CREATE USER 'newuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';

3. Set permission

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON * . * TO 'newuser'@'localhost';

4. Permission for a specific database

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON `databasename`.* TO 'username'@'localhost' WITH GRANT OPTION;

5. Rerfresh

FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

How To Grant Different User Permissions

Here is a short list of other common possible permissions that users can enjoy.

• ALL PRIVILEGES- as we saw previously, this would allow a MySQL user full access to a designated database (or if no database is selected, global access across the system)
• CREATE- allows them to create new tables or databases
• DROP- allows them to them to delete tables or databases
• DELETE- allows them to delete rows from tables
• INSERT- allows them to insert rows into tables
• SELECT- allows them to use the SELECT command to read through databases
• UPDATE- allow them to update table rows
• GRANT OPTION- allows them to grant or remove other users’ privileges