Granting mysql access rights to all machines on subnet

Question

I have a mysql instance (and schema) running on windows that I can access via a connection string based on localhost as the server.

now I want to be able to access this db from another machine on the same subnet.

If possible I would like to use a single user but allow it to access from any machine on the same subnet.

how do I setup security for this? (I already opened the relevant firewall port)

Thanks, Eyal

Answer 1

You can do it like this:

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON mydb TO 'username'@'192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0';

change subnet and IP accordingly

Answer 2

You can also use wildcards, rather than a masks.

You can specify wildcards in the host name. For example, user_name@'%.example.com' applies to user_name for any host in the example.com domain, and user_name@'192.168.1.%' applies to user_name for any host in the 192.168.1 class C subnet.

See the Account Names and Passwords section of the in the GRANT docs.