I have both a theory question and a question on implementation of privileges.
First theory. I have been using:
grant all privileges on db-name.* to user@localhost
identified by 'password';
Because I blunder about as root I never was impacted by 'file' being a global
permission. As 'load infile' seems (to me) to be equivalant to 'insert' I do not
see the reason for this. If its just a historical thing, so be it, but IMO it
makes little sense that a user could create and/or delete a table but to import
data he is required to convert a csv file to 'insert value' statements.
My implementation question is about specifying the user. Apparently the
following are different:
1) user@localhost
2) 'user@localhost'
3) 'user'@'localhost'
I have not tested all this, but I did grant file privileges to #1 but could not
use them logging into with 'mysql -u doug@localhost sysadmin' ('doug' being
setup without a password).
The question is which form should be used and why are they different as all are
accepted without error and all add entries for the users and db tables.
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Douglas Denault
http://www.safeport.com
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