How to Check Users Assigned to Roles and Vice Versa

Question

How to check users assigned to roles and vice versa?

Answer

Querysql

SELECT user()

Responseresponse

Query id: 9bc02d8b-ab05-4a63-b2dd-3e0093f36d31

┌─currentUser()─┐
│ default       │
└───────────────┘

1 row in set. Elapsed: 0.001 sec.

Create the user foo:

Querysql

CREATE USER foo IDENTIFIED WITH sha256_password BY 'secretPassword123!';

Responseresponse

Query id: 9711f5fc-2b5c-43f0-a760-0c67764919a2

Ok.

0 rows in set. Elapsed: 0.102 sec.

Create the user bar:

Querysql

CREATE USER bar IDENTIFIED WITH sha256_password BY 'secretPassword123!';

Responseresponse

Query id: 11a78bf5-f5e1-4f1d-bfe8-cf2aa0a1b15d

Ok.

0 rows in set. Elapsed: 0.103 sec.

Create the role role_a:

Querysql

CREATE ROLE role_a;

Responseresponse

Query id: 13ccc007-fa5a-4110-9a05-48e284cea45f

Ok.

0 rows in set. Elapsed: 0.104 sec.

Create the role role_b:

Querysql

CREATE ROLE role_b;

Responseresponse

Query id: 43f84376-76fa-4cd2-b8e2-2dcfbe41ec1b

Ok.

0 rows in set. Elapsed: 0.103 sec.

Grant role_a to the users foo and bar:

Querysql

GRANT role_a TO foo, bar;

Responseresponse

Query id: 4fe91624-efb3-4091-b680-b6905ab445b4

Ok.

0 rows in set. Elapsed: 0.107 sec.

Grant role_b to the user bar:

Querysql

GRANT role_b TO bar;

Responseresponse

Query id: 7ea38b28-2719-4dd6-8abd-0241f7b34d5c

Ok.

0 rows in set. Elapsed: 0.102 sec.

Check which users have been assigned role_a:

Querysql

SELECT * FROM system.role_grants WHERE granted_role_name = 'role_a';

Responseresponse

Query id: bf088776-f450-4150-b2e8-197b400573c1

┌─user_name─┬─role_name─┬─granted_role_name─┬─granted_role_is_default─┬─with_admin_option─┐
│ bar       │ ᴺᵁᴸᴸ      │ role_a            │                       1 │                 0 │
│ foo       │ ᴺᵁᴸᴸ      │ role_a            │                       1 │                 0 │
└───────────┴───────────┴───────────────────┴─────────────────────────┴───────────────────┘

2 rows in set. Elapsed: 0.001 sec.

Check which roles have been assigned to the users foo and bar:

Querysql

SELECT * FROM system.role_grants WHERE user_name IN ('foo', 'bar');

Responseresponse

Query id: b81dbe1c-42f0-43bd-b237-1a6b1d81ae3d

┌─user_name─┬─role_name─┬─granted_role_name─┬─granted_role_is_default─┬─with_admin_option─┐
│ bar       │ ᴺᵁᴸᴸ      │ role_b            │                       1 │                 0 │
│ bar       │ ᴺᵁᴸᴸ      │ role_a            │                       1 │                 0 │
│ foo       │ ᴺᵁᴸᴸ      │ role_a            │                       1 │                 0 │
└───────────┴───────────┴───────────────────┴─────────────────────────┴───────────────────┘

3 rows in set. Elapsed: 0.001 sec.

Querysql

SELECT user();

Responseresponse

Query id: eee6eaaa-11bc-42c1-9258-fa3079ee6f80

┌─currentUser()─┐
│ foo           │
└───────────────┘

1 row in set. Elapsed: 0.001 sec.

Querysql

SHOW CURRENT ROLES;

Responseresponse

Query id: aa6a1ac1-3502-4960-bb34-f7d9f0d7986e

┌─role_name─┬─with_admin_option─┬─is_default─┐
│ role_a    │                 0 │          1 │
└───────────┴───────────────────┴────────────┘

1 row in set. Elapsed: 0.002 sec.

Querysql

SELECT user();

Responseresponse

Query id: fa9ba47f-efcf-4491-9b4e-2f1130dfa84b

┌─currentUser()─┐
│ bar           │
└───────────────┘

1 row in set. Elapsed: 0.001 sec.

Querysql

SHOW CURRENT ROLES;

Responseresponse

Query id: fb3f2941-a8ce-481d-8fad-b775bfc5b532

┌─role_name─┬─with_admin_option─┬─is_default─┐
│ role_a    │                 0 │          1 │
│ role_b    │                 0 │          1 │
└───────────┴───────────────────┴────────────┘

2 rows in set. Elapsed: 0.001 sec.