Database Administration: Database User Management and Permissions

Here are the initial instructions and explanation of the lab environment. Read this while your environment is busy creating itself from nothing. Yes, this violates physics; we know. How fun!

To start things off, you’ll learn to manage MySQL users and roles on a Linux machine. You'll create users, set read-only and read/write roles, assign permissions, and verify access levels through MySQL commands. This hands-on lab is perfect for building foundational database administration skills.

In this challenge, you’ll set up a database and create MySQL users with specific access: database-wide, table-specific, and column-specific. By creating roles and assigning permissions, you’ll control user access at multiple levels and verify permissions with SHOW GRANTS, enhancing your secure database management skills.

You’ll test user permissions by logging in as each MySQL user and performing actions like reading, writing, and creating data. Verifying these permissions ensures each role works as expected and strengthens your database security skills.

Welcome to the final challenge! This is your last chance to experiment in the environment. Clicking Finish Lab will end this little world that flittered into existence just for you.