Let MySQL users create databases, but allow access to only their own databases

Question

I want to have multiple a MySQL users to be able to issue commands like

CREATE DATABASE dbTest;

But I also want each of t

Answer 1

It is impossible to do this using permissions only .

The workaround as suggested in another answer: GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ONtestuser_%. * TO 'testuser'@'%'; has the problem that the users must then be very careful in naming their databases.

For example if user aaa creates database bbb_xyz, it can then be accessed exclusively by user bbb but not by user aaa.