====== MySQL - Export users with grants ====== Make it easy to have all the queries needed to determine the grants for every user. mysql> SELECT DISTINCT CONCAT('SHOW GRANTS FOR \'', user, '\'@\'', host, '\';') AS query FROM mysql.user; +-------------------------------------------------+ | query | +-------------------------------------------------+ | SHOW GRANTS FOR 'root'@'127.0.0.1'; | | SHOW GRANTS FOR 'root'@'::1'; | | SHOW GRANTS FOR 'debian-sys-maint'@'localhost'; | | SHOW GRANTS FOR 'email'@'localhost'; | | SHOW GRANTS FOR 'greylist'@'localhost'; | | SHOW GRANTS FOR 'mysql.sys'@'localhost'; | | SHOW GRANTS FOR 'root'@'localhost'; | | SHOW GRANTS FOR 'roundcube'@'localhost'; | | SHOW GRANTS FOR 'roundcubeuser'@'localhost'; | | SHOW GRANTS FOR 'snort'@'localhost'; | | SHOW GRANTS FOR 'spamassassin'@'localhost'; | | SHOW GRANTS FOR 'wiki'@'localhost'; | | SHOW GRANTS FOR 'wiki'@'localhost.localdomain'; | +-------------------------------------------------+ 13 rows in set (0.00 sec) Then get the actual grants for that user. mysql> SHOW GRANTS FOR 'email'@'localhost'; +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Grants for email@localhost | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | GRANT USAGE ON *.* TO 'email'@'localhost' | | GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON `email_accounts`.* TO 'email'@'localhost' | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ 2 rows in set (0.00 sec) To combine all the above, run this query: ### mysql -uroot -p{PASS} -B -N -e "SELECT DISTINCT CONCAT('SHOW GRANTS FOR \'', user, '\'@\'', host, '\';') AS query FROM mysql.user" | mysql -uroot -p{PASS} | sed 's/\(GRANT .\)/\1;/;s/^\(Grants for .\)/## \1 ##/;/##/{x;p;x;}'