grant remote access of MySQL database from any IP address

Question

I am aware of this command:

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES
ON database.*
TO \'user\'@\'yourremotehost\'
IDENTIFIED BY \'newpassword\';

But then it on

Answer 1

Assuming that the above step is completed and MySql port 3306 is free to be accessed remotely; Don't forget to bind the public ip address in the mysql config file.

For example on my ubuntu server:

#nano /etc/mysql/my.cnf

In the file, search for the [mysqld] section block and add the new bind address, in this example it is 192.168.0.116. It would look something like this

......    
.....    
# Instead of skip-networking the default is now to listen only on
# localhost which is more compatible and is not less secure.

bind-address        = 127.0.0.1    
bind-address        = 192.168.0.116

.....    
......

you can remove th localhost(127.0.0.1) binding if you choose, but then you have to specifically give an IP address to access the server on the local machine.

Then the last step is to restart the MySql server (on ubuntu)

stop mysql

start mysql

or #/etc/init.d/mysql restart for other systems

Now the MySQL database can be accessed remotely by:

mysql -u username -h 192.168.0.116 -p