HOWTO : Create a normal user on MySQL and MariaDB

Using a root account on the web applications as user is risky. It is more secure to create a normal user for the web applications.

Step 1 :

mysqladmin -u samiux -p create mydatabase

*where samiux is the normal username and mydatabase is the name of the database of the web applications

Step 2 :

mysql -u root -p

Step 3 :

GRANT SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, CREATE, DROP, INDEX, ALTER ON mydatabase.* TO 'samiux'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'mypassword';

*where mypassword is the password of the user samiux

That's all! See you.