MySql : Grant read only options?

Question

I have a user, whom I want to grant all the READ permission on a db schema.

One way is this :

GRANT SELECT, SHOW_VIEW  ON test.* TO \'readuser\'@\'%         


        

Answer 1

Even user has got answer and @Michael - sqlbot has covered mostly points very well in his post but one point is missing, so just trying to cover it.

If you want to provide read permission to a simple user (Not admin kind of)-

GRANT SELECT, EXECUTE ON DB_NAME.* TO 'user'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'PASSWORD';

Note: EXECUTE is required here, so that user can read data if there is a stored procedure which produce a report (have few select statements).

Replace localhost with specific IP from which user will connect to DB.

Additional Read Permissions are-

• SHOW VIEW : If you want to show view schema.
• REPLICATION CLIENT : If user need to check replication/slave status. But need to give permission on all DB.
• PROCESS : If user need to check running process. Will work with all DB only.