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Published Jul. 2, 2025

Updating the database users in Liferay SaaS

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István Gergely-Tárnoki

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Issue

  • We have created users who can access the database by theCREATE USER 'username'@'hostname' IDENTIFIED BY 'password '; command and granted certain permissions to them
  • Those users are specified in the LCP_DATABASE_USER_WHITELIST environment variable
  • Now we're trying to change the passwords of those users and update their other data with our Liferay Cloud user but we get a ERROR 1227 (42000): Access denied; you need (at least one of) the SUPER privilege(s) for this operation

Environment

  • Liferay SaaS

Resolution

  • You can change the users' passwords only with the user you've created them
  • That should be the default database user whose credentials can be found in the LCP_SECRET_DATABASE_USER and LCP_SECRET_DATABASE_PASSWORD environment variables
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