Access denied; you need (at least one of) the SUPER privilege(s) for this operation

Either remove the DEFINER=.. statement from your sqldump file, or replace the user values with CURRENT_USER.

The MySQL server provided by RDS does not allow a DEFINER syntax for another user (in my experience).

You can use a sed script to remove them from the file:

sed 's/\sDEFINER=`[^`]*`@`[^`]*`//g' -i oldfile.sql

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If your dump file doesn't have DEFINER, make sure these lines below are also removed if they're there, or commented-out with -- :

At the start:

-- SET @@SESSION.SQL_LOG_BIN= 0;
-- SET @@GLOBAL.GTID_PURGED=/*!80000 '+'*/ '';

At the end:

-- SET @@SESSION.SQL_LOG_BIN = @MYSQLDUMP_TEMP_LOG_BIN;

Note that the comment characters are "dash dash space" including the space.

A better solution is to stop these lines from being written to the dump file at all by including the option --set-gtid-purged=OFF on your mysqldump command.

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Another useful trick is to invoke mysqldump with the option --set-gtid-purged=OFF which does not write the following lines to the output file:

SET @@SESSION.SQL_LOG_BIN= 0;
SET @@GLOBAL.GTID_PURGED=/*!80000 '+'*/ '';
SET @@SESSION.SQL_LOG_BIN = @MYSQLDUMP_TEMP_LOG_BIN;

not sure about the DEFINER one.

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When we create a new RDS DB instance, the default master user is not the root user. But only gets certain privileges for that DB instance. This permission does not include SET permission. Now if your default master user tries to execute mysql SET commands, then you will face this error: Access denied; you need (at least one of) the SUPER or SYSTEM_VARIABLES_ADMIN privilege(s) for this operation

Solution 1

Comment out or remove these lines

SET @MYSQLDUMP_TEMP_LOG_BIN = @@SESSION.SQL_LOG_BIN;
SET @@SESSION.SQL_LOG_BIN= 1;
SET @@GLOBAL.GTID_PURGED=/*!80000 '+'*/ '';

Solution 2

You can also ignore the errors by using the -f option to load the rest of the dump file.

mysql -f <REPLACE_DB_NAME> -u <REPLACE_DB_USER> -h <DB_HOST_HERE> -p < dumpfile.sql

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Just a MacOS extra update for hjpotter92 answer.

To make sed recognize the pattern in MacOS, you'll have to add a backslash before the = sign, like this:

sed -i old 's/\DEFINER\=`[^`]*`@`[^`]*`//g' file.sql

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Problem: You're trying to import data (using mysqldump file) to your mysql database ,but it seems you don't have permission to perform that operation.

Solution: Assuming you data is migrated ,seeded and updated in your mysql database, take snapshot using mysqldump and export it to file

mysqldump -u [username] -p [databaseName] --set-gtid-purged=OFF > [filename].sql

From mysql documentation: GTID - A global transaction identifier (GTID) is a unique identifier created and associated with each transaction committed on the server of origin (master). This identifier is unique not only to the server on which it originated, but is unique across all servers in a given replication setup. There is a 1-to-1 mapping between all transactions and all GTIDs. --set-gtid-purged=OFF SET @@GLOBAL.gtid_purged is not added to the output, and SET @@SESSION.sql_log_bin=0 is not added to the output. For a server where GTIDs are not in use, use this option or AUTO. Only use this option for a server where GTIDs are in use if you are sure that the required GTID set is already present in gtid_purged on the target server and should not be changed, or if you plan to identify and add any missing GTIDs manually.

Afterwards connect to your mysql with user root ,give permissions , flush them ,and verify that your user privileges were updated correctly.

mysql -u root -p
UPDATE mysql.user SET Super_Priv='Y' WHERE user='johnDoe' AND host='%';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
mysql> SHOW GRANTS FOR 'johnDoe';
+------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Grants for johnDoe                                               |
+------------------------------------------------------------------+
| GRANT USAGE ON *.* TO `johnDoe`                                  |
| GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON `db1`.* TO `johnDoe`                     |
+------------------------------------------------------------------+

now reload the data and the operation should be permitted.

mysql -h [host] -u [user] -p[pass] [db_name] < [mysql_dump_name].sql

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Full Solution

All the above solutions are fine. And here I'm gonna combine all the solutions so that it should work for all the situations.

Fixed DEFINER

For Linux and Mac

sed -i old 's/\DEFINER\=`[^`]*`@`[^`]*`//g' file.sql

For Windows
download atom or notepad++, open your dump sql file with atom or notepad++, press Ctrl+F
search the word DEFINER, and remove the line DEFINER=admin@% (or may be little different for you) from everywhere and save the file.
As for example
before removing that line: CREATE DEFINER=admin@% PROCEDURE MyProcedure
After removing that line: CREATE PROCEDURE MyProcedure

Remove the 3 lines Remove all these 3 lines from the dump file. You can use sed command or open the file in Atom editor and search for each line and then remove the line. Example: Open Dump2020.sql in Atom, Press ctrl+F, search SET @@SESSION.SQL_LOG_BIN= 0, remove that line.

SET @@SESSION.SQL_LOG_BIN= 0;
SET @@GLOBAL.GTID_PURGED=/*!80000 '+'*/ '';
SET @@SESSION.SQL_LOG_BIN = @MYSQLDUMP_TEMP_LOG_BIN;

There an issue with your generated file You might face some issue if your generated dump.sql file is not proper. But here, I'm not gonna explain how to generate a dump file. But you can ask me (_)

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For importing database file in .sql.gz format, remove definer and import using below command

zcat path_to_db_to_import.sql.gz | sed -e 's/DEFINER[ ]*=[ ]*[^*]*\*/\*/' | mysql -u user -p new_db_name

Earlier, export database in .sql.gz format using below command. mysqldump -u user -p old_db | gzip -9 > path_to_db_exported.sql.gz; Import that exported database and removing definer using below command, zcat path_to_db_exported.sql.gz | sed -e 's/DEFINER[ ]*=[ ]*[^*]*\*/\*/' | mysql -u user -p new_db

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I commented all the lines start with SET in the *.sql file and it worked.

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When you restore backup, Make sure to try with the same username for the old one and the new one.

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Issue

Below statement or line your Dump file creating issue

DEFINER=username@`%

Simple Solution

The solution that you can workaround is to remove all the entries from SQL dump file and import data from the GCP console.

 cat DUMP_FILE_NAME.sql |  sed -e 's/DEFINER=`<username>`@`%`//g' > NEW-CLEANED-DUMP.sql

above command will help to remove all those lines from the dump file and create the new fresh dump file without Definer.

Try importing new file(NEW-CLEANED-DUMP.sql).

If you are on AWS RDS

You might see face issue, if your dump file is larger you can check the first 20 lines using

head -30 filename

once you can see output look for line and line number

SET @@SESSION.SQL_LOG_BIN= 0;
SET @@GLOBAL.GTID_PURGED=/*!80000 '+'*/ '';
SET @@SESSION.SQL_LOG_BIN = @MYSQLDUMP_TEMP_LOG_BIN; 

we will remove these lines by line numbers for example 17,18,24 line number

sed -e '24d;17d;18d' file-name.sql > removed-line-file-name.sql

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If it helps, when I tried to restore a DB dump on my AWS MySQL RDS, I got this error:

ERROR 1227 (42000) at line 18: Access denied; you need (at least one of) the SUPER, 
SYSTEM_VARIABLES_ADMIN or SESSION_VARIABLES_ADMIN privilege(s) for this operation

I didn't have to change the DEFINER or remove/comment out lines. I just did:

GRANT SESSION_VARIABLES_ADMIN ON *.* TO myuser@'myhost';
GRANT SYSTEM_VARIABLES_ADMIN ON *.* TO myuser@'myhost';

And I was able to do the restore.

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None of the above solutions worked for me. I had to do the following:

Use the following flags with mysqldump: mysqldump --databases --master-data=1 --single-transaction --order- by-primary --foce -r all.sql -h -u -p

Remove the line that looks like: CHANGE MASTER TO MASTER_LOG_FILE='binlog..... In my file, that was line #22, so I ran: sed -i '22d' all.sql

In my file, that was line #22, so I ran: sed -i '22d' all.sql

Import the data to your RDS: mysql -h -u -p $ source all.sql

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* Answer may only be applicable to MacOS *

When trying to import a .sql file into a docker container, I encountered the error message:

Access denied; you need (at least one of) the SUPER privilege(s) for this operation

Then while trying some of the other suggestions, I received the below error on my MacOS (osx)

sed: RE error: illegal byte sequence

Finally, the following command from this resource resolved my "Access Denied" issue.

LC_ALL=C sed -i old 's/\DEFINER\=`[^`]*`@`[^`]*`//g' fileName.sql

So I could import into the docker database with:

docker exec -i dockerContainerName mysql -uuser -ppassword table < importFile.sql

Hope this helps! :)

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Need to set "on" server parameter "log_bin_trust_function_creators" on server side. This one you can easily find on left side blade if it is azure maria db.

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Issue in dump.

Please try to get dump by following way:

mysqldump -h databasehost --user=databaseusername --password --single-transaction databasename  | sed -e 's/DEFINER[ ]*=[ ]*[^*]*\*/\*/' | gzip > /tmp/database.sql.gz

Then, try to import by following way:

zcat /tmp/database.sql.gz | mysql -h database_host -u username -p databasename

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In my case (trying to execute a SQL file into AWS RDS) the beginning of my SQL statement looked like this:

DROP VIEW IF EXISTS `something_view`;
CREATE ALGORITHM=UNDEFINED DEFINER=`root`@`%` SQL SECURITY DEFINER VIEW `something_view`...

All I had to do to fix it was to remove ALGORITHM=UNDEFINED DEFINER='root'@'%' SQL SECURITY DEFINER part of the above statement.

So the new statement looks like this:

CREATE VIEW 'something_view' ...

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