Create New User

Create a MySQL User

For creating new user, We need to follow simple steps as below :

Step 1: Login to MySQL as root

$ mysql -u root -p

Step 2 : We will see mysql command prompt

mysql> CREATE USER 'my_new_user'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'test_password';

Here, We have successfully created new user, But this user won’t have any permissions, So to assign permissions to user use following command :

mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON my_db.* TO 'my_new_user'@'localhost' identified by 'my_password';

Specify the password

The basic usage is:

mysql> CREATE USER 'my_new_user'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'test_password';

However for situations where is not advisable to hard-code the password in cleartext it is also possible to specify directly, using the directive PASSWORD, the hashed value as returned by the PASSWORD() function:

mysql> select PASSWORD('test_password'); -- returns *4414E26EDED6D661B5386813EBBA95065DBC4728
mysql> CREATE USER 'my_new_user'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY PASSWORD '*4414E26EDED6D661B5386813EBBA95065DBC4728';

Create new user and grant all priviliges to schema

grant all privileges on schema_name.* to 'new_user_name'@'%' identified by 'newpassword';

Attention: This can be used to create new root user

Renaming user

rename user 'user'@'%' to 'new_name`@'%';

If you create a user by mistake, you can change his name

Remarks

To view a List of MySQL Users, we use the following command :

SELECT User,Host FROM mysql.user;