From: Ben Clewett
Date: February 20 2008 9:26am
Subject: Re: external mysqldump
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I use a specific user (backup) for my backups, therefore user privileges 
are not effected.  Is there something like this which you could use?

Andre Hübner wrote:
> Thank you for answering.
> is there a way to do without granting super-privileg?  for security 
> reasons i cannot grant too high privileges for normal db-users.
> rights should be limited to own db.
> Thanks
> Andre
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ben Clewett" <ben@stripped>
> To: "Andre Hübner" <Andre.Huebner@stripped>
> Cc: <mysql@stripped>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 9:46 AM
> Subject: Re: external mysqldump
> 
> 
>> Try:
>>
>> > mysql -u root -p ....
>>
>> mysql> GRANT SUPER ON *.* TO myuser@'%';
>> mysql> GRANT SUPER ON *.* TO myuser@'localhost';
>>
>>
>> Andre Hübner wrote:
>>> Hi List,
>>>
>>> i wrote this alrready in mysql-forum a few days ago, but did not get 
>>> any answer. :(
>>>
>>> i try to do backup with mysqldump from external host with routines.
>>> mysqldump -R -h my.host.name -u myuser -p'mypass' mydb > filename.sql
>>> I got error: myuser has insufficent privileges to SHOW CREATE 
>>> FUNCTION `countuser`!
>>> It works if i do the same mysqldumLine directly on the server where 
>>> db is installed.
>>> In mysql-table myuser has same privileges for % and locklhost. Are 
>>> there some further restrictions for external connects?
>>> I dont have an idea what to change now.
>>>
>>> Thank you
>>> Andre
>>>
>