MySQL: Show Users, Privileges and Passwords

Show all MySQL users:

mysql> SELECT user FROM mysql.user;

List only unique user names:

mysql> SELECT DISTINCT user FROM mysql.user;

Show MySQL users and hosts they are allowed to connect from:

mysql> SELECT user,host FROM mysql.user;

Show MySQL users, their passwords and hosts:

mysql> SELECT user,host,password FROM mysql.user;

in MySQL 5.7 and higher:

mysql> SELECT host,user,authentication_string FROM mysql.user;

Show privileges granted to the current MySQL user:

mysql> SHOW GRANTS;

Show privileges granted to the MySQL user (if you don’t specify a host for the user name, MySQL assumes % as the host):

mysql> SHOW GRANTS FOR 'user_name';

Show privileges granted to a particular MySQL user account from a given host:

mysql> SHOW GRANTS FOR 'user_name'@'host';

– e.g. –

mysql> SHOW GRANTS FOR 'root'@'localhost';
mysql> SHOW GRANTS FOR 'root'@'%';
mysql> SHOW GRANTS FOR 'admin'@'192.168.0.1';