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;
The output is as follows:
+----------------+--------------+------+------+---------+-------+
| 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)
View the information in the USER_PRIVILEGES
table:
SELECT * FROM USER_PRIVILEGES;
The output is as follows:
+------------+---------------+-------------------------+--------------+
| 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 | CREATE TABLESPACE | 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 |
| 'root'@'%' | def | REPLICATION CLIENT | YES |
| 'root'@'%' | def | REPLICATION SLAVE | YES |
+------------+---------------+-------------------------+--------------+
31 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
.