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Which privileges for MySQL extended status?

If I want to execute "SHOW STATUS" within MySQL or use "mysqladmin extended-status" on command line with a non-root user, which privileges would this user then need?
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Why does this procedure raise a privilege error?

I am having trouble getting the following procedure to run on a remote MySQL database - the given error is privilege based (#1227). Locally, the procedure runs fine. QUESTIONS Could somebody help ...
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EMS SQL manager permission problem

I have a strange problem with EMS SQL Manager. I'm using MySQL 5.5 with linux servers. One of my developers need to edit store procedure, so I grant him: GRANT CREATE ROUTINE, ALTER ROUTINE ON ...
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mysqldump: flush-privileges option

I'd like to get some clarification about the --flush-privileges option for mysqldump. Here's the description of the option from the MySQL docs: --flush-privileges Send a FLUSH PRIVILEGES ...
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hosting account with advanced mysql privileges

Is it possible to have a mysql database where either: a) the user has limited permissions on a table by table basis (e.g. can only select, insert from table_a, and can only update table_b) b) ...
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how to import mysql system “mysql” database [closed]

This question might be already answered but it's almost impossible to google it. When I perform full backup of mysql server using mysqldump --all-databases then reinstall it from scratch I want to ...
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mysql allow access for localhost and named server

Hope we're enjoying this Fine Friday afternoon and getting ready for the weekend. I've got a quick question. I'm trying to set up a user to allow them access from localhost and from a specific named ...
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Can't SHOW GRANTS after MySQL re-install

I had to completely re-install MySQL on one of the slaves and then rebuild it via a sql dump (we have 1 master and 2 slaves). I tried to SHOW GRANTS for one of the users, but keep getting the ...
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Unable to set table-specific privileges

I want to give a user access to only a few tables. I execute this query: GRANT SELECT (credits_features_csgo, steam_code, credits_csgo, userid, credits_forum, credits_features_tf2, credits_tf2, ...
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How do I automatically grant all privileges to a schema created by a user in mysql?

Someone new joined the company and I created an account for her in mysql using the following: CREATE USER 'username' IDENTIFIED BY 'password' She needs to create her own schema and so used: GRANT ...
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How to restrict MySQL user to not import and export database

I have created a read only MySQL user but this user have an option to export the database through phpmyadmin. How can I disable the options Export and Import?
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Give privilege to new created databases in MySQL

I have user "U" who I want to give him full access to all the existing databases except "db1". I want him to only have select privilege for that db. What I did is I gave "U" all permissions for each ...
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Cannot GRANT privileges as root

Because of having some problems, I decided to re-create all users except for root@localhost. This works fine, but the newly created user has no right to do anything. What I want is to simply give all ...
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can't remove “GRANT USAGE”

I was testing some stuff, and added a: grant usage on statistics.* to cptnotsoawesome@localhost identified by 'password'; so now when I do show grants for cptnotsoawesome@localhost; I can see ...
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How do I change the DEFINER of a VIEW in Mysql?

When I run mysqldump, I get an error: mysqldump: Got error: 1449: The user specified as a definer ('root'@'foobar') does not exist when using LOCK TABLES This makes sense because foobar is a legacy ...
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Is it possible to find the values of MySQL variables if I do not have SELECT privileges on mysql.user?

I am getting a 'msyql server has gone away' error sometimes when doing a large binary insert, so I wanted to check the settings on mysql, things like wait_timeout and max_allowed_packet. However show ...
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How to retrieve granted privileges without access to the database “mysql”?

As a MySQL user without access to the mysql database, is it possible to retrieve my privileges?
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Can you “su -” in MySQL?

If I have root on a mysql database and I want to drop privileges to that of a normal user, without using their password, can I do it? if so how? think # su - username on unix. Basically, I'm just ...