Create MySQL User Account from Command Line

Follow these steps to create new user for MySQL in command line. Note this instruction assume that you have already setup MySQL.

1. Open a terminal and login to MySQL as root

mysql --user="root" --password="your_root_password"

2. Create new user and password with following command

CREATE USER 'new_username'@'localhost'
IDENTIFIED BY 'password_for_new_user';

3. Assign privileges to the new user

GRANT ALL ON *.* TO 'new_username'@'localhost';

4. Exit MySQL interface

exit

Notes:

The above instructions will create a new user account on "localhost" and grant the user all privileges. While this is safe for my development environment, you would obviously want to grant only the necessary permissions in a production environment.

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