Alright I have tried to do the grant like the following: GRANT ALTER,CREATE,DELETE,DROP,INDEX,SELECT,UPDATE ON "user%".* TO user@% IDENTIFIED BY "password";
GRANT ALTER,CREATE,DELETE,DROP,INDEX,SELECT,UPDATE ON user%.* TO user@% IDENTIFIED BY "password"; With no luck I keep getting an error message... ERRO 1064: You have an error in you SQL syntax near '"usre%".* To user@% IDENTIFIED BY "password" at line 2 Any help would be appreciated. TIA, Ryan --- Paul DuBois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 9:25 -0800 12/8/02, Ryan McDougall wrote: > >Hi thanx for the details... Ok I know I am thick... and for some reason I > >cannot get my head around this, let me try to explain what I want to do then > >maybe you can tell me its possible and how it is possible. > > > >I want to create a user that can be creative as he wants... allow > >him to create > >ANY databases he wants and delete them if he no longer needs them, but at > that > >same time not be able to mess with ANY other privileges or anyone elses DBs. > > That's not how it works. You can grant privileges for "any database", > but you can't grant privileges for "any database except certain databases". > > One thing that may help is that you can use a pattern to specify the > database name in the GRANT statement. Then the user can create any database > that has a name matching the pattern. For example, GRANT ALL ON "xyz%".* ... > will allow the user to create and mess with any database having a name > that begins with "xyz". > > >The only other way I can think of it to compare it to a windows > >situation. Lets > >say I'm in Windows and I start up MS Access... Now with me being a > >Windows user > >I can create any DB I want and do whatever I want to the DBs I've created > (as > >long as its not in a read only folder) but I can't see or do > >anything to to the > >other peoples creations becuase I don't have permissions to do so. > > > >Am I going to have to, as root or another super user, create his DBs for him > >and then give him privileges to them? I just don't get how that sort of > >situation works in a production environment. But then again in a production > >environment you don't usually have people just creating DBs at will. > > > >Again sorry for my complete lack of understanding on this and > >stupidity, but my > >brain just will not wrap itself around this issue. > > You're probably trying to understand the MySQL privilege system as analogous > to some other type of privilege system. Try to understand it as itself and > you'll probably get farther. > > > > >Thanx for all the help so far, > >Ryan McDougall > __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
