You are using the MySQL Database server and created database and users. Now you need to see MySQL users list. How can you view users? In this tutorial, you will see how to list MySQL user accounts via command line.
Login to MySQL Server
Once you are in Linux / Ubuntu command line enter below command to access MySQL server.
shell> mysql --user=root mysql
The above command connects you to MySQL server interface with root user. If you have assigned a password to the root account, you must also supply a --password or -p option.
shell> mysql --user=root mysql -p
After connecting to MySQL server successfully, you can list users.
List MySQL Users
Use below SQL query to see list of mysql users.
mysql> SELECT User FROM mysql.user;
The above command trims of "User" table and lists only user names.
+-------+| User |+-------+| root |+-------+| newuser |+-------+
If you want to list of MySQL user information, including user permission information and all users data. You could try below query.
mysql> select * from mysql.user;.
You could try other variations with below example queries.
mysql> select User, Host from mysql.user;mysql> select User, Host, Password from mysql.user;mysql> select DISTINCT User FROM mysql.user;
MySQL Users Information
You can see all the fields in the mysql.user table including description by running this MySQL query.
mysql> desc mysql.user;
If you have any additional questions on how to show all users in MySQL, feel free to ask us through below comment box.