How to Check permissions of user / login in MySQL Server - MySQL DBA Tutorial

How to check what permissions user / login has in MySQL Server

Once you are login to MySQL Server, you can run below statement to see the permission of currently login user account.

MySQL > Show grants;

If you want to check the permissions of other users, you can do as long as you have the permissions to do by using below statement.

MySQL > SHOW GRANTS FOR 'UserName'@'HostName'; 

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