How do I set MySQL temporarily to read-only through the command line?

Question

I\'m creating a bash script which, among other things, gathers some data from a MySQL database. My MySQL user has write privileges, but for safety reasons I would like to te

Answer 1

Well, if the user right now has all privileges first, you need to revoke it

$>mysql -u DB_USER -pDB_PASS --execute="REVOKE ALL PRIVILEGES, GRANT OPTION FROM 'YOUR_USER';"

After that you give him, the select permission

$>mysql -u DB_USER -pDB_PASS --execute="GRANT SELECT ON 'YOUR_DATABASE'@.* TO 'YOUR_USER'@'%';FLUSH PRIVILEGES;"

Do your stuff and after that grant privileges again to the user

$>mysql -u DB_USER -pDB_PASS --execute="GRANT ALL ON 'YOUR_DATABASE'@.* TO 'YOUR_USER'@'%';FLUSH PRIVILEGES;"

And that's all folks

NOTE: Review for quotation, perhaps i forgot something