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This tutorial will show how to enable MySQL remote access in order to make it accept connections from the network instead of just local connections.

The Problem

A fresh MySQL installation has its remote access disabled by default for security reasons, however, it can be enabled by taking a few simple steps.
It is important to mention that the following solution was tested against CentOS 7.2, but it’s very likely to work on other Linux versions and/or distributions.
I am going straight to the solution to make your MySQL avaiable for remote access, but you can find a detailed explanation at the end of this post.