= How To Allow Remote Access MYSQL/MariaDB/MYSQL Community == Add New Rule to Firewalld Open SQL port (3306) on FireWalld: ---- sudo firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --add-service=mysql ---- ## OR ## ---- sudo firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --add-port=3306/tcp ---- == Restart firewalld.service ---- systemctl restart firewalld.service ---- == Editing Conf. Files: Configuration files: * MySql -> `/etc/my.cnf/` * MySql Community -> `/etc/my.cnf.d/community-mysql-server.cnf` * MariaDB -> `/etc/my.conf` NOTE: you can ensure that with the following command `rpm -qc [package]`. Navigate to the line that begins with the bind-address directive. It will look like this: you could set this directive to a wildcard IP address, either *, ::, or 0.0.0.0: ---- bind-address = 0.0.0.0 ---- After changing this line, save and close the file and then restart the MySQL service: ---- sudo systemctl restart {mysqld|mariadb} ---- == Creating a USER ---- CREATE USER 'your_username'@'host_ip_addr' IDENTIFIED BY 'your_password'; ---- NOTE: Replace your_username and your_password depending on what you want the username and password to be. Here, host_ip_addr is the hostname or IP address of the computer from where you want to connect to the MySQL/MariaDB server. You can also use % as host_ip_addr if you want to connect from any computer. It can also be something like 192.168.2.% if you want to connect from computers from the IP range 192.168.2.1 – 192.168.2.254. == Allow Access ---- GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'your_username'@'%'; IDENTIFIED BY 'my-new-password' WITH GRANT OPTION; ---- #OR It is common for people to want to create a "root" user that can connect from anywhere, so as an example, we'll do just that, but to improve on it we'll create a root user that can connect from anywhere on the local area network (LAN) ---- GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'root'@'192.168.100.%' IDENTIFIED BY 'my-new-password' WITH GRANT OPTION; ---- ---- FLUSH PRIVILEGES; ---- == Connecting ---- mysql -u [USER] -h [IP] -p ----