---
title: "Web Cloud Databases - Modifying a user's rights"
description: "Find out how to modify a user's rights on your Web Cloud Databases solution"
url: https://docs.ovhcloud.com/en/guides/web-cloud/databases/db-modify-users-rights
lang: en
lastUpdated: 2026-03-24
---
# Web Cloud Databases - Modifying a user's rights

## Objective

The [Web Cloud Databases](https://www.ovhcloud.com/en-gb/web-cloud/databases/) solution can contain several databases. You can define one or more users for managing and using your databases. These users may have higher or lower rights depending on their roles in your databases.
While using the product, you may need to modify a user's rights on your [Web Cloud Databases](https://www.ovhcloud.com/en-gb/web-cloud/databases/).

**Find out how to modify a user's rights on your Web Cloud Databases solution.**

## Requirements

- A [Web Cloud Databases](https://www.ovhcloud.com/en-gb/web-cloud/databases/) solution and one or more users.


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### OVHcloud Control Panel Access

- **Direct link:** <ManagerLink to="/#/web/web/private_database">Web Cloud Databases</ManagerLink>
- **Navigation path:** <code className="action">Web Cloud</code> > <code className="action">Web Cloud Databases</code> > Select your database service

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## Instructions

:::info
To create a new user on your Web Cloud Databases solution, refer to the **Create a user** section of our guide "[Creating databases and users on your database server](/en/guides/web-cloud/databases/db-create-databases-users.md)".

:::

Click on the tabs below to view each of the **4** steps.


**Step 1**

Go to the <ManagerLink to="/#/web/web/private_database">Web Cloud Databases</ManagerLink> page, then select the solution concerned.
![Web Cloud Databases](/images/assets/screens/control-panel/product-selection/web-cloud/web-cloud-databases.png)

**Step 2**

On the page that appears, click on the <code className="action">Users and rights</code> tab.
![Users and rights](/images/assets/screens/control-panel/product-selection/web-cloud/web-cloud-databases/users-and-rights.png)

**Step 3**

Click the <code className="action">...</code> button to the right of the user concerned, then click <code className="action">Manage rights</code>.
![Manage rights](/images/assets/screens/control-panel/product-selection/web-cloud/web-cloud-databases/users-and-rights/manage-rights-user-alone.png)

**Step 4**

On the new page that appears, you will find a table listing all the databases on your Web Cloud Databases solution. This table shows all the rights your user has for each database on your Web Cloud Databases solution.
![Changing user rights](/images/assets/screens/control-panel/product-selection/web-cloud/web-cloud-databases/users-and-rights/changing-user-rights-db-alone.png)This is where you can modify your user's rights for each of your databases. To do this, for each database concerned, simply click on the empty circles corresponding to the rights you want to redefine for your user. The change takes effect within moments.


Below is a summary table of the types of queries that can be performed on a database, depending on the rights assigned to the user:


| Rights | Administrator | Read / Write | Read | None |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Select | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |  |
| Insert | ✔ | ✔ |  |  |
| Update | ✔ | ✔ |  |  |
| Delete | ✔ | ✔ |  |  |
| Create | ✔ |  |  |  |
| Alter | ✔ |  |  |  |
| Drop | ✔ |  |  |  |


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