grant remote access of MySQL database from any IP address

Question

I am aware of this command:

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES
ON database.*
TO \'user\'@\'yourremotehost\'
IDENTIFIED BY \'newpassword\';

But then it on

Answer 1

For anyone who fumbled with this, here is how I got to grant the privileges, hope it helps someone

GRANT ALL ON yourdatabasename.* TO root@'%' IDENTIFIED BY
'yourRootPassword';

As noted % is a wildcard and this will allow any IP address to connect to your database. The assumption I make here is when you connect you'll have a user named root (which is the default though). Feed in the root password and you are good to go. Note that I have no single quotes (') around the user root.