Hi!
On May 20, Sergey Kudriavtsev wrote:
> 2008/5/20 Sergei Golubchik <serg@stripped>:
> > On May 20, Sergey Kudriavtsev wrote:
> >> To distinguish roles from users I propose to use "Host" field of
> >> mysql.user table - If this field is empty then we should consider
> >> the specified record to be a role. Now empty field is equivalent
> >> to '%'. I will change the behaviour of parser to always fail host
> >> identity check when the checked field has empty value. I will also
> >> change mysql_fix_privilege_tables script to replace all existing
> >> empty "Host" field values with '%'.
> >
> > This is fine, but what are you going to do with mysql.host table ?
> > In there empty host is not equivalent to '%' :(
>
> I'm not sure whether I have to do something with mysql.host table at
> all. Anyway, I'm going to store roles in mysql.user/mysql.xxx_priv
> only and I don't see how mysql.host table will interfere with roles'
> privileges. Please, explain this issue in more detailed way.
Sorry, it was a typo. I meant mysql.db table. In mysql.db table blank
host is not the same as '%' host.
Regards / Mit vielen Grüssen,
Sergei
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