User Accounts

Existing users are listed in the lower left area of the sidebar. If there are many user accounts on your MySQL server, the field with the magnifying-glass icon may be handy for filtering the users you are looking for. Typing in t or T, for example, will set the filter to users whose names begin with a t. The filter works in a case-insensitive fashion.

If you are an experienced MySQL user, you will notice that users are not listed the typical MySQL way (user@host), but rather with their usernames only. If double-clicking on a username does not show subcategories for that user, this means that the user's privileges are not restricted to a specific host, or hosts. If there are subcategories, the user's privileges are restricted to a specific host, or set of hosts.

Figure 9.1. User accounts

User accounts

For example, you might have a user called superuser. If double-clicking on that username shows two subcategories, localhost and athena, this means that the user has a specific set of privileges if he/she connects from localhost, and a (probably different) set of privileges if he/she connects from athena.

Right-clicking on a username, or on one of the subcategories a user might have, provides access to the following commands: