Check privileges (grants) for a specific user in MySQL?

If you want to check privileges for a specific user, then use the below syntax −

SHOW GRANTS FOR 'yourUserName'@'yourHostName';

The above syntax will check privileges for a specific user.

To check the privileges for a specific user, then use FOR. Let’s say we have a username ‘JOHN‘ and host is ‘%’. Following is the query to get the privileges for user “JOHN” −

mysql> SHOW GRANTS FOR 'JOHN'@'%';

This will produce the following output −

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| Grants for JOHN@%
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| GRANT SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, CREATE, DROP, RELOAD, SHUTDOWN,
PROCESS, FILE, REFERENCES, INDEX, ALTER, SHOW DATABASES, SUPER, CREATE
TEMPORARY TABLES, LOCK TABLES, EXECUTE, REPLICATION SLAVE, REPLICATION
CLIENT, CREATE VIEW, SHOW VIEW, CREATE ROUTINE, ALTER ROUTINE, CREATE
USER, EVENT, TRIGGER, CREATE TABLESPACE, CREATE ROLE, DROP ROLE ON *.* TO
`JOHN`@`%` WITH GRANT OPTION |
| GRANT
BACKUP_ADMIN,BINLOG_ADMIN,CONNECTION_ADMIN,ENCRYPTION_KEY_ADMIN,GR
OUP_REPLICATION_ADMIN,PERSIST_RO_VARIABLES_ADMIN,REPLICATION_SLAVE_A
DMIN,RESOURCE_GROUP_ADMIN,RESOURCE_GROUP_USER,ROLE_ADMIN,SET_USE
R_ID,SYSTEM_VARIABLES_ADMIN,XA_RECOVER_ADMIN ON *.* TO `JOHN`@`%` WITH
GRANT OPTION |
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