{"id":707,"date":"2014-09-01T16:57:11","date_gmt":"2014-09-01T16:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adriangrigoras.com\/blog\/?p=707"},"modified":"2016-09-01T16:58:48","modified_gmt":"2016-09-01T16:58:48","slug":"enable-remote-access-mysql-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adriangrigoras.com\/blog\/enable-remote-access-mysql-ubuntu\/","title":{"rendered":"Enable remote access of MySql on Ubuntu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By default MySQL only listens to localhost, if we want to enable the remote access to it, then we need to made some changes in <span class=\"skimlinks-unlinked\">my.cnf<\/span> file:<\/p>\n<p>We need to comment out the bind-address and skip-external-locking lines.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Restart mysql<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Check the process:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"lang-sql prettyprint prettyprinted\"><code><span class=\"pln\">lsof <\/span><span class=\"pun\">-<\/span><span class=\"pln\">i <\/span><span class=\"pun\">-<\/span><span class=\"pln\">P <\/span><span class=\"pun\">|<\/span><span class=\"pln\"> grep <\/span><span class=\"pun\">:<\/span><span class=\"lit\">3306\r\n\r\nCreate user:\r\n<\/span><\/code><\/pre>\n<pre class=\"lang-sql prettyprint prettyprinted\"><code><span class=\"kwd\">CREATE<\/span> <span class=\"kwd\">USER<\/span> <span class=\"str\">'myuser'<\/span><span class=\"pun\">@<\/span><span class=\"str\">'localhost'<\/span><span class=\"pln\"> IDENTIFIED <\/span><span class=\"kwd\">BY<\/span> <span class=\"str\">'mypass'<\/span><span class=\"pun\">;<\/span>\r\n<span class=\"kwd\">CREATE<\/span> <span class=\"kwd\">USER<\/span> <span class=\"str\">'myuser'<\/span><span class=\"pun\">@<\/span><span class=\"str\">'%'<\/span><span class=\"pln\"> IDENTIFIED <\/span><span class=\"kwd\">BY<\/span> <span class=\"str\">'mypass'<\/span><span class=\"pun\">;\r\n\r\n<\/span><\/code>Grant access:<\/pre>\n<pre class=\"lang-sql prettyprint prettyprinted\"><code><span class=\"kwd\">GRANT<\/span> <span class=\"kwd\">ALL<\/span> <span class=\"kwd\">ON<\/span> <span class=\"pun\">*.*<\/span> <span class=\"kwd\">TO<\/span> <span class=\"str\">'myuser'<\/span><span class=\"pun\">@<\/span><span class=\"str\">'localhost'<\/span><span class=\"pun\">;<\/span>\r\n<span class=\"kwd\">GRANT<\/span> <span class=\"kwd\">ALL<\/span> <span class=\"kwd\">ON<\/span> <span class=\"pun\">*.*<\/span> <span class=\"kwd\">TO<\/span> <span class=\"str\">'myuser'<\/span><span class=\"pun\">@<\/span><span class=\"str\">'%'<\/span><span class=\"pun\">;<\/span><\/code><\/pre>\n<pre class=\"lang-sql prettyprint prettyprinted\"><code><span class=\"pln\">FLUSH PRIVILEGES<\/span><span class=\"pun\">;<\/span> <\/code><\/pre>\n<pre class=\"lang-sql prettyprint prettyprinted\"><code><span class=\"lit\">\u00a0<\/span><\/code><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By default MySQL only listens to localhost, if we want to enable the remote access to it, then we need to made some changes in my.cnf file: We need to comment out the bind-address and skip-external-locking lines. &nbsp; Restart mysql &nbsp; Check the process: lsof -i -P | grep :3306 Create user: CREATE USER &#8216;myuser&#8217;@&#8217;localhost&#8217;\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/adriangrigoras.com\/blog\/enable-remote-access-mysql-ubuntu\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adriangrigoras.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adriangrigoras.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adriangrigoras.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adriangrigoras.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adriangrigoras.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/adriangrigoras.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":708,"href":"https:\/\/adriangrigoras.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions\/708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adriangrigoras.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adriangrigoras.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adriangrigoras.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}