Yes, a cron job will make the solution more robust.
I'm new to *classic* client-server DB apps and I'm still amazed for a so standard
issue I have to find tricks.
Particularly I wonder at this:
standard SQL commands exist to assign (GRANT) and remove (REVOKE) privileges,
but there is not a SQL
On Sat, Dec 27, 2003 at 05:40:46PM +0100, Plinio Conti wrote:
Yes, a cron job will make the solution more robust.
I'm new to *classic* client-server DB apps and I'm still amazed for a
so standard issue I have to find tricks.
Particularly I wonder at this: standard SQL commands exist to assign
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 18:20:53 -0600
Paul DuBois [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I confirm:
SHOW GRANTS FOR CURRENT_USER();
does not work,
while that query is exaclty what you expect to do reading mysql manual.
I agree, one might easily come to that conclusion based on the wording.
The manual
.
The route your taking will be slower,more resource intensive and more
complicated.
- Original Message -
From: Plinio Conti [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2003 11:58 AM
Subject: Re: Quering user privileges
To be honest, the fact I can't
Plinio Conti wrote:
Yes, I think I will do it with an additional table on the db server,
for the moment (I have no time to implement parsing etc...)
The problem is, like you stated, to mantain that table up to date
with changes in system tables. The best solution would be a trigger
for this, but
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
.
- Original Message -
From: Plinio Conti [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2003 5:55 PM
Subject: Quering user privileges
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
Sorry,
I was not using any SELCT in my queries,
it's just an error typing the email
I confirm:
SHOW GRANTS FOR CURRENT_USER();
does not work,
while that query is exaclty what you expect to do reading mysql manual.
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 12:47:11 +0200
Egor Egorov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Plinio
Plinio Conti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sorry,
I was not using any SELCT in my queries,
it's just an error typing the email
I confirm:
SHOW GRANTS FOR CURRENT_USER();
does not work,
while that query is exaclty what you expect to do reading mysql manual.
It means that you can use
To be honest, the fact I can't get it with only one query but I have to do:
1) SELECT CURRENT_USER();
2) SHOW GRANTS FOR valueExtractedByPreviousQuery;
is a little thing compared with work remaing to get usefull information:
I have to parse the strings returned by query 2, handle the wildcards,
user privileges
To be honest, the fact I can't get it with only one query but I have to
do:
1) SELECT CURRENT_USER();
2) SHOW GRANTS FOR valueExtractedByPreviousQuery;
is a little thing compared with work remaing to get usefull information:
I have to parse the strings returned by query 2
At 15:46 +0100 12/23/03, Plinio Conti wrote:
Sorry,
I was not using any SELCT in my queries,
it's just an error typing the email
I confirm:
SHOW GRANTS FOR CURRENT_USER();
does not work,
while that query is exaclty what you expect to do reading mysql manual.
I agree, one might easily come to that
Paul DuBois wrote:
At 15:46 +0100 12/23/03, Plinio Conti wrote:
Sorry,
I was not using any SELECT in my queries,
it's just an error typing the email
I confirm:
SHOW GRANTS FOR CURRENT_USER();
does not work,
while that query is exactly what you expect to do reading mysql manual.
I agree, one
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
Thank you!
That is what I was looking for!
Unfortunatly that command is not SQL 92 or SQL 99 standard, isn't it?
(at least I guess, after I quick search in my ANSI files,
BTW I think if they had put in MySQL documentation a note for each SQL command
where is specified standard compliance that
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
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
be a connection to the database from the client
when viewing the file.
- Original Message -
From: Plinio Conti [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2003 5:55 PM
Subject: Quering user privileges
Is there a way to query the privileges of current user if he hasn't
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