Backup MySQL users

Question

How do I backup MySQL users and their privileges?

Anything like mysqldump?

I am looking for something like:

mysqldump -d -u root -p MyTable &         


        

Answer 1

probably pretty obvious for mysql command liners but for spirit's answer above had to add -u root -ppassword after both mysql commands

mysql -u root -ppassword -BNe "select concat('\'',user,'\'@\'',host,'\'') from mysql.user where user != 'root'" | while read uh; do mysql -u root -ppassword -BNe "show grants for $uh" | sed 's/$/;/; s/\\/\/g'; done > grants.sql;