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

Run the following:

$ mysql -u root -p      
mysql> GRANT ALL ON *.* to root@'ipaddress' IDENTIFIED BY 'mysql root password';     
mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;     
mysql> exit

Then attempt a connection from the IP address you specified:

mysql -h address-of-remove-server -u root -p   

You should be able to connect.