# User permissions for mysql.cnf

**URL:** <https://forums.percona.com/t/user-permissions-for-mysql-cnf/3461>\
**Category:** Percona Monitoring Plugins\
**Created:** [May 9, 2014, 9:04am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/user-permissions-for-mysql-cnf/3461 "2014-05-09T09:04:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![churnd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e68b1a/32.png) [@churnd](https://forums.percona.com/u/churnd)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2014, 9:04am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/user-permissions-for-mysql-cnf/3461/1 "2014-05-09T09:04:13Z")

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What are the minimum permissions required for a mysql.cnf user to be able to run all the Percona nagios commands successfully? I just set it up and have it using root, but obviously I don’t want to do that long term.

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**Author:** ![weber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/da6949/32.png) [@weber](https://forums.percona.com/u/weber)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2014, 2:04pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/user-permissions-for-mysql-cnf/3461/2 "2014-05-16T14:04:54Z")

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root:nagios and 640 should be good.