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

If you want to grant remote access of your database from any IP address, run the mysql command and after that run the following command.

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.*
TO 'root'@'%' 
IDENTIFIED BY 'password' 
WITH GRANT OPTION;