Danny, Although my experience with MySQL user management is limited to just maintaining a handful of users, I find it rather overly-complex because of the need to maintain a table of users and 'from where' they can have access, and to what databases they can have access to. For example, I just installed MySQL Administrator on my laptop and then I had to add rows allowing me to access MySQL from my laptop. The ODBC connection setup should suffice. For every instance of MySQL, you have to have an entry in the user table for every user from every access point. Then multiply that by the number of databases in each instance and you can see that administration of the users can get out of hand. If I had to choose between the 3 methods listed below, I would choose #2 if there was a large number of roles and users. I would definitely stay away from option #3 no matter what. HTH. Kevin Struckhoff Customer Analytics Mgr. NewRoads West Office 818.253.3819 Fax 818.834.8843 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Danny Stolle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 10:08 AM To: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: [SPAM] - discuss: user management - Bayesian Filter detected spam hi, i would like to discuss 'user management' in mysql. Working with Oracle you can assign users to roles giving them privileges provided by that role. MySql doesn't have Roles. I have read (Managing and Using MySql, O'Reilly) 3 options on managing users having multiple roles in a MySql environment: 1. Giving the user a Single user ID and assign the privileges to that user ID 2. Create role-bases users and have different people share the same user
ID for a given role. 3. Create multiple user IDs for each role played by each user (dannys_arch as an architect, dannys_dev as a developer). Which of these 3 options is the most preferable one or are there more options which you can use. What are the advantages and disadvantages on working with one of these 3 options? how do you handle hostnames when working with random ip-addresses on your site. Or just plain simple (or stupid) what are your experiences on user management in a MySql environment. Best regards, Danny Stolle Netherlands -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
