usual way to give read acces to a database is

 mysql -u root databaseName # connect to database in mysql
 grant connect to whoever ; # without password
 grant connect to whoever identified by clever ; # with a passwd
 grant connect to whoever@localhost ; # you must be logged whoever on localhost

see also

• http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/grant.html
• http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/create-user.html

Even if you want your user to copy the database, copying sould be done through :

mysqldump database | mysql -u whoever targetdatabase

usual way to give read acces to a database is

 mysql -u root databaseName # connect to database in mysql
 grant connect to whoever ; # without password
 grant connect to whoever identified by clever ; # with a passwd
 grant connect to whoever@localhost ; # you must be logged whoever on localhost

see also

• http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/grant.html
• http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/create-user.html

Even if you want your user to copy the database, copying sould be done through :

mysqldump database | mysql -u whoever targetdatabase

Access

To acces file from client script

• /var/lib/mysql/databaseName sould be rwxrwxr-x,
• /var/lib/mysql/databaseName:* sould be rwxrwxr-x.