Thread: user privileges

I'm creating a user in my database and this user has to access posts and threads in my forum. it shouldn't have the right to edit posts of anything except accessing. which privileges should i give?

which privileges should i give to this user?

Select only.

Thanks. what can the user do if it has the right to index?

Indexing writes to one or more tables. There's nothing that I'm aware of that is inherently "bad" about indexing, however I suspect someone full of malice could cause the server to become bogged down/crash if it was receiving a lot of index requests, especially if the tables are large.

I'm more concern of security now a days after being hacked. Thanks a lot.

You're quite welcome!