USER_PRIVILEGES
The USER_PRIVILEGES
table provides information about global privileges. This information comes from the mysql.user
system table:
USE information_schema;
DESC user_privileges;
+----------------+--------------+------+------+---------+-------+
| Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra |
+----------------+--------------+------+------+---------+-------+
| GRANTEE | varchar(81) | YES | | NULL | |
| TABLE_CATALOG | varchar(512) | YES | | NULL | |
| PRIVILEGE_TYPE | varchar(64) | YES | | NULL | |
| IS_GRANTABLE | varchar(3) | YES | | NULL | |
+----------------+--------------+------+------+---------+-------+
4 rows in set (0.00 sec)
SELECT * FROM user_privileges;
+------------+---------------+-------------------------+--------------+
| GRANTEE | TABLE_CATALOG | PRIVILEGE_TYPE | IS_GRANTABLE |
+------------+---------------+-------------------------+--------------+
| 'root'@'%' | def | Select | YES |
| 'root'@'%' | def | Insert | YES |
| 'root'@'%' | def | Update | YES |
| 'root'@'%' | def | Delete | YES |
| 'root'@'%' | def | Create | YES |
| 'root'@'%' | def | Drop | YES |
| 'root'@'%' | def | Process | YES |
| 'root'@'%' | def | References | YES |
| 'root'@'%' | def | Alter | YES |
| 'root'@'%' | def | Show Databases | YES |
| 'root'@'%' | def | Super | YES |
| 'root'@'%' | def | Execute | YES |
| 'root'@'%' | def | Index | YES |
| 'root'@'%' | def | Create User | YES |
| 'root'@'%' | def | Trigger | YES |
| 'root'@'%' | def | Create View | YES |
| 'root'@'%' | def | Show View | YES |
| 'root'@'%' | def | Create Role | YES |
| 'root'@'%' | def | Drop Role | YES |
| 'root'@'%' | def | CREATE TEMPORARY TABLES | YES |
| 'root'@'%' | def | LOCK TABLES | YES |
| 'root'@'%' | def | CREATE ROUTINE | YES |
| 'root'@'%' | def | ALTER ROUTINE | YES |
| 'root'@'%' | def | EVENT | YES |
| 'root'@'%' | def | SHUTDOWN | YES |
| 'root'@'%' | def | RELOAD | YES |
| 'root'@'%' | def | FILE | YES |
| 'root'@'%' | def | CONFIG | YES |
+------------+---------------+-------------------------+--------------+
28 rows in set (0.00 sec)
Fields in the USER_PRIVILEGES
table are described as follows:
GRANTEE
: The name of the granted user, which is in the format of'user_name'@'host_name'
.TABLE_CATALOG
: The name of the catalog to which the table belongs. This value is alwaysdef
.PRIVILEGE_TYPE
: The privilege type to be granted. Only one privilege type is shown in each row.IS_GRANTABLE
: If you have theGRANT OPTION
privilege, the value isYES
; otherwise, the value isNO
.