Question

How can I find what databases I have a minimum of read access to in either basic SQL, MySQL specific or in PHP?

Answer 1

There is a command in MySQL which can show you all of the permissions you have. The command is:

 SHOW GRANTS; 

It will give you output similar to:

 root@(none)~> show grants; +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Grants for root@localhost                                           | +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ | GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'root'@'localhost' WITH GRANT OPTION |  +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec) 

This is documented at in the manual here.