How to grant remote access permissions to mysql se

Question

If I do SHOW GRANTS in my mysql database I get

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'root'@'localhost' 
    IDENTIFIED BY PASSWORD 'some_characters' 
    WITH GRANT OPTION

If I am not mistaken, root@localhost means that user root can access the server only from localhost. How do I tell MySQL to grant root the permission to access this mysql server from every other machine (in the same network), too?

Answer 1

This worked for me. But there was a strange problem that even I tryed first those it didnt affect. I updated phpmyadmin page and got it somehow working.

If you need access to local-xampp-mysql. You can go to xampp-shell -> opening command prompt.

Then mysql -uroot -p --port=3306 or mysql -uroot -p (if there is password set). After that you can grant those acces from mysql shell page (also can work from localhost/phpmyadmin).

Just adding these if somebody find this topic and having beginner problems.

Answer 2

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'root'@'%' 
    IDENTIFIED BY 'YOUR_PASS' 
    WITH GRANT OPTION;
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;  

*.* = DB.TABLE you can restrict user to specific database and specific table.

'root'@'%' you can change root with any user you created and % is to allow all IP. You can restrict it by changing %.168.1.1 etc too.

Answer 3

This grants root access with the same password from any machine in *.example.com:

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'root'@'%.example.com' 
    IDENTIFIED BY 'some_characters' 
    WITH GRANT OPTION;
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

If name resolution is not going to work, you may also grant access by IP or subnet:

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'root'@'192.168.1.%'
    IDENTIFIED BY 'some_characters'  
    WITH GRANT OPTION;
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

MySQL GRANT syntax docs.

Answer 4

Open the /etc/mysql/mysql.conf.d/mysqld.cnf file and comment the following line:

#bind-address = 127.0.0.1

Answer 5

Try:

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'root'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'Pa55w0rd' WITH GRANT OPTION;

Answer 6

You need to take some steps to make sure first mysql and then root user is accessible from outside:

1. Disable skip-networking in my.cnf (i.e: /etc/mysql/my.cnf)

2. Check value of bind-address in my.cnf, if it's set to 127.0.0.1, you can change it to 0.0.0.0 to allow access from all IPs or whatever ip that you want to connect from.

3. Grant remote access the root user from any ip (or specify your ip instead of %)

   GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'root'@'%'
       IDENTIFIED BY 'your_root_password'
       WITH GRANT OPTION;
   FLUSH PRIVILEGES;`
   

4. Restart mysql service:

   sudo service mysql restart