Revoke all privileges for all users on a MySQL DB

Question

From: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/drop-database.html

...when a database is dropped, user privileges on the database are not automatically d

Answer 1

REVOKE ALL PRIVILEGES FROM '%'@'%';

The above could be dangerous as i suppose it will delete all the privileges from all the users including root

Modify it to:

REVOKE ALL PRIVILEGES FROM 'user'@'localhost';

or

REVOKE ALL PRIVILEGES FROM 'user'@'%';

before execute