Better User Management for MySQL
If you're like me, you love the granular permissions capabilities of MySQL but hate the work that goes into managing them.
Recently, I've been dealing with MySQL permissions a lot and most of the time I'm creating very similar permissions over and over again. It got me thinking that I could really use MySQL groups. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be anything like groups in MySQL and according to plans won't be added officially until MySQL 7.0 (WL#988). Considering they originally planned to include Role support in MySQL 5.0, I'm not sure I'm holding my breath.
While searching around, I found Securich – a project about 6 months old which uses stored procedures to create a much more capable and easy to manage permissions system on top of MySQL's existing permissions. DISCLAIMER: I have not actually tried this so everything I say is based on what I'veunderstood from the documentation.