DROP USER
Syntax
DROP USER user [, user] ...
Description
The DROP USER statement removes one or more MariaDB accounts. It removes
privilege rows for the account from all grant tables. To use this
statement, you must have the global CREATE USER
privilege or
the DELETE
privilege for the mysql database. Each account is named using
the same format as for the CREATE USER
statement; for example,
'jeffrey'@'localhost'
. If you specify only the user name part of the
account name, a host name part of '%'
is used. For additional
information about specifying account names, see CREATE USER
.
Note that, if you specify an account that is currently connected, it will not be deleted until the connection is closed. The connection will not be automatically closed.
If any of the specified user accounts do not exist, ERROR 1396 (HY000)
results. If an error occurs, DROP USER
will still drop the accounts that
do not result in an error. Only one error is produced for all users which have not been dropped:
ERROR 1396 (HY000): Operation DROP USER failed for 'u1'@'%','u2'@'%'
Failed CREATE
or DROP
operations, for both users and roles, produce the same error code.