I’m making a winforms app in vb.net that connects to a mysql database on my webserver to read and write data, this all works fine.
But i have to allow the users ip to remote connect to the database.
Is it possible to give everyone access to the database? The user account will not have all rights an the data isn’t very important if it got lost.
The user account and connection details are hard coded.
I know this isnt secure but that doesnt really matter.
Yes, that’s very well possible. In your mysql privileges table you’ll have to grant a wildcard (
%) host access to the user. Then in your VB.NET code simply use the address in the connectionString.