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

Note for MySQL 8 it's different

You need to do it in two steps:

CREATE USER 'readonly_user'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'some_strong_password';
GRANT SELECT, SHOW VIEW ON *.* TO 'readonly_user'@'localhost';
flush privileges;