Plinio Conti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> The manual page at http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/SHOW_GRANTS.html
> says:
>
> "To list grants for the current session one may use CURRENT_USER() function"
>
> But if I run
> "SELECT SHOW GRANTS FOR CURRENT_USER();
>
> I get syntax error (Error 1064).
>
> While if I run directly
> "SELECT SHOW GRANTS FOR [EMAIL PROTECTED];"
>
> It works. Did you guess why?
Look at the example of usage SHOW GRANTS in the manual:
mysql> SHOW GRANTS FOR [EMAIL PROTECTED];
There is no SELECT word in the query.
>
> On Mon, 22 Dec 2003 15:37:43 +0200
> Egor Egorov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Plinio Conti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >
>> > Is there a way to query the privileges of current user if he hasn't the rights to
>> > read the mysql system tables (user, db, hosts, etc..)
>> >
>> > I mean, I CAN'T give a standard user the chance of read "system tables"!
>> > But my client app wants to know if the current user has (for example) the rights
>> > to write on table xxx, because if not, I don't want to let him try and fail, I
>> > want to disable the updates in advance.
>> >
>>
>> Take a look at SHOW GRANTS command:
>> http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/SHOW_GRANTS.html
>>
>
>
>
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