MYSQL into outfile “access denied” - but my user has “ALL” access.. and the folder is CHMOD 777

Question

Any ideas?

SELECT * INTO OUTFILE '/home/myacnt/docs/mysqlCSVtest.csv'
FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED BY '*'
LINES TERMINATED BY '\n'
FROM tbl_property 
WHERE managerGroupID = {$managerGroupID}

Error:

Access denied for user 'asdfsdf'@'localhost' (using password: YES)

Answer 1

Try executing this SQL command:

> grant all privileges 
  on YOUR_DATABASE.* 
  to 'asdfsdf'@'localhost' 
  identified by 'your_password';
> flush privileges; 

It seems that you are having issues with connecting to the database and not writing to the folder you’re mentioning.

Also, make sure you have granted FILE to user 'asdfsdf'@'localhost'.

> GRANT FILE ON *.* TO 'asdfsdf'@'localhost';

Answer 2

Honestly I didnt bother to deal with the grants and this worked even without the privileges:

echo "select * from employee" | mysql --host=HOST --port=PORT --user=UserName --password=Password DATABASE.SCHEMA > output.txt

Answer 3

As @fijaaron says,

1. GRANT ALL does not imply GRANT FILE
2. GRANT FILE only works with *.*

So do

GRANT FILE ON *.* TO user;

Answer 4

Since cP/WHM took away the ability to modify User privileges as root in PHPMyAdmin, you have to use the command line to:

mysql>  GRANT FILE ON *.* TO 'user'@'localhost';

Step 2 is to allow that user to dump a file in a specific folder. There are a few ways to do this but I ended up putting a folder in :

/home/user/tmp/db

and

chown mysql:mysql /home/user/tmp/db

That allows the mysql user to write the file. As previous posters have said, you can use the MySQL temp folder too, I don't suppose it really matters but you definitely don't want to make it 0777 permission (world-writeable) unless you want the world to see your data. There is a potential problem if you want to rinse-repeat the process as INTO OUTFILE won't work if the file exists. If your files are owned by a different user then just trying to unlink($file) won't work. If you're like me (paranoid about 0777) then you can set your target directory using:

chmod($dir,0777)

just prior to doing the SQL command, then

chmod($dir,0755)

immediately after, followed by unlink(file) to delete the file. This keeps it all running under your web user and no need to invoke the mysql user.