I want to create a user 'projectA' that has the same permissions to every database named 'projectA_%'
I know its possible but MySQL doesn't like my syntax:
grant all on 'projectA\_%'.* to 'projectA'@'%';
Reference: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/grant.html
If I use back-tics instead of single quotes in the syntax, it appears to work just fine:
grant all on `projectA\_%`.* to `projectA`@`%`;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON `projectA\_%`.* TO 'projectA'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'your_passwd';
back-tics are needed for the database name
Edited:Underscore is now escaped.
As per MySQL's GRANT documentation:
The “_” and “%” wildcards are permitted when specifying database names
in GRANT statements that grant privileges at the global or database
levels. This means, for example, that if you want to use a “_”
character as part of a database name, you should specify it as “\_” in
the GRANT statement, to prevent the user from being able to access
additional databases matching the wildcard pattern; for example, GRANT
... ON `foo\_bar`.* TO ....