SET DEFAULT ROLE

This statement sets a specific role to be applied to a user by default. Thus, they will automatically have the permissions associated with a role without having to execute SET ROLE <rolename> or SET ROLE ALL.

Synopsis

SetDefaultRoleStmt
SETDEFAULTROLENONEALLRolename,TOUsername,

Examples

Connect to TiDB as the root user:

mysql -h 127.0.0.1 -P 4000 -u root

Create a new role analyticsteam and a new user jennifer:

CREATE ROLE analyticsteam; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.02 sec) GRANT SELECT ON test.* TO analyticsteam; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.02 sec) CREATE USER jennifer; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.01 sec) GRANT analyticsteam TO jennifer; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.01 sec)

Connect to TiDB as the jennifer user:

mysql -h 127.0.0.1 -P 4000 -u jennifer

Note that by default jennifer needs to execute SET ROLE analyticsteam in order to be able to use the privileges associated with the analyticsteam role:

SHOW GRANTS; +---------------------------------------------+ | Grants for User | +---------------------------------------------+ | GRANT USAGE ON *.* TO 'jennifer'@'%' | | GRANT 'analyticsteam'@'%' TO 'jennifer'@'%' | +---------------------------------------------+ 2 rows in set (0.00 sec) SHOW TABLES in test; ERROR 1044 (42000): Access denied for user 'jennifer'@'%' to database 'test' SET ROLE analyticsteam; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec) SHOW GRANTS; +---------------------------------------------+ | Grants for User | +---------------------------------------------+ | GRANT USAGE ON *.* TO 'jennifer'@'%' | | GRANT Select ON test.* TO 'jennifer'@'%' | | GRANT 'analyticsteam'@'%' TO 'jennifer'@'%' | +---------------------------------------------+ 3 rows in set (0.00 sec) SHOW TABLES IN test; +----------------+ | Tables_in_test | +----------------+ | t1 | +----------------+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec)

Connect to TiDB as the root user:

mysql -h 127.0.0.1 -P 4000 -u root

The statement SET DEFAULT ROLE can be used to associate the role analyticsteam to jennifer:

SET DEFAULT ROLE analyticsteam TO jennifer; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.02 sec)

Connect to TiDB as the jennifer user:

mysql -h 127.0.0.1 -P 4000 -u jennifer

After this, the user jennifer has the privileges associated with the role analyticsteam and jennifer does not have to execute the statement SET ROLE:

SHOW GRANTS; +---------------------------------------------+ | Grants for User | +---------------------------------------------+ | GRANT USAGE ON *.* TO 'jennifer'@'%' | | GRANT Select ON test.* TO 'jennifer'@'%' | | GRANT 'analyticsteam'@'%' TO 'jennifer'@'%' | +---------------------------------------------+ 3 rows in set (0.00 sec) SHOW TABLES IN test; +----------------+ | Tables_in_test | +----------------+ | t1 | +----------------+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec)

SET DEFAULT ROLE will not automatically GRANT the associated role to the user. Attempting to SET DEFAULT ROLE for a role that jennifer does not have granted results in the following error:

SET DEFAULT ROLE analyticsteam TO jennifer; ERROR 3530 (HY000): `analyticsteam`@`%` is is not granted to jennifer@%

MySQL compatibility

The SET DEFAULT ROLE statement in TiDB is fully compatible with the roles feature in MySQL 8.0. If you find any compatibility differences, report a bug.

See also