Access MySQL and Retrieve User Information

Introduction

In this project, you will learn how to access the MySQL database and obtain information about the current logged-in user and the system user.

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MariaDB [(none)]> SOURCE /home/labex/project/currentUser.sql;
+----------------+----------------+
| CURRENT_USER() | SYSTEM_USER()  |
+----------------+----------------+
| root@localhost | root@localhost |
+----------------+----------------+
1 row in set (0.000 sec)

🎯 Tasks

In this project, you will learn:

How to access the MySQL database using the sudo command without a password
How to use the CURRENT_USER and SYSTEM_USER functions to retrieve user information
How to save the SQL script to a designated file location

🏆 Achievements

After completing this project, you will be able to:

Understand how to access the MySQL database and execute SQL statements
Retrieve information about the current logged-in user and the system user
Save SQL scripts to a specific file location for future use

Skills Graph

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Access MySQL and Obtain User Information

In this step, you will learn how to access the MySQL database using the sudo command and obtain information about the current logged-in user and the system user.

Open a terminal and start the MySQL service using the following command:

sudo service mysql start

Access the MySQL database using the sudo command without any password:

sudo mysql

You should now be in the MySQL prompt, ready to execute SQL statements.

Display Current User and System User Information

In this step, you will write SQL statements to display the current logged-in user and the system user information.

Open the currentUser.sql file.
Add the following SQL statement:

SELECT CURRENT_USER(), SYSTEM_USER();

This statement will use the CURRENT_USER function to obtain information about the currently logged-in user and the SYSTEM_USER function to obtain information about the system user.

Save the SQL Script

In this final step, you will save the SQL script to the designated file location.

Run the script in the MySQL prompt using the following command:

MariaDB [(none)]> SOURCE /home/labex/project/currentUser.sql;

This will execute the SQL script and display the current logged-in user and system user information.

The output should look similar to the following:

+----------------+----------------+
| CURRENT_USER() | SYSTEM_USER()  |
+----------------+----------------+
| root@localhost | root@localhost |
+----------------+----------------+
1 row in set (0.000 sec)

This output shows that the current logged-in user and the system user are both root@localhost.

Congratulations! You have completed the project and saved the SQL script to the designated location.

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