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
If you allowing to IP range grant permision should be :
ReplyDeleteGRANT ALL ON testdb.* TO testuser@'10.100.2.0/255.255.255.0' .... There you can provide access from the 10.100.2.0 to 10.100.2.255
or
GRANT ALL ON testdb.* TO testuser@'10.100.2.%' ...