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How to enable remote access to mysql database server

Enable remote access to mySQL database server 1. Open the MySQL server configuration file my.cnf. sudo gedit /etc/mysql/my.cnf 2. Change the bind-address value to your MySQL server ip. If the MySQL server IP=10.100.2.200, change it as follows, save and close my.cnf file. bind-address=10.100.2.200 3. Now Grant access to remote IP. If the remote IP=10.100.2.180   Grant permission to a specific database (ex: testbd) GRANT ALL ON testdb.* TO testuser@'10.100.2.180' IDENTIFIED BY 'test123'; Grant all permissions GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO testuser@'10.100.2.180'  IDENTIFIED BY 'test123'  WITH GRANT OPTION; 4. Open port 3306, if firewalls are enabled. Following is a sample iptables rule to open Linux iptables firewall. /sbin/iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -p tcp --destination-port 3306 -j ACCEPT 5. logout of mysql. 6. Connect from remote host mysql -u root -h 10.100.2.200 -p