[talk] Databases

[N.J. Thomas]

* Sujit K M <kmsujit at gmail.com> [2016-10-15 18:42:05+0530]:
> I was recently looking at databases or infact user who are readonly. I
> wanted to know whether MySQL on FreeBSD happens to have a write
> configuration which lets you disable the write part totally.

If I understood you correctly, I think what you want is to create a user
and grant them only read permissions. Here's the syntax for the GRANT
command:

    http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/grant.html

You can do this at the database or table level.

Thomas