Verified with PS 5.6.25. Also checked with MySQL Community 5.6.25 but its not reproducible there. nilnandan@desktop:~$ mysql -uroot -p Enter password: Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g. Your MySQL connection id is 40 Server version: 5.6.25-73.1-log Percona Server (GPL), Release 73.1, Revision 07b797f Copyright (c) 2009-2015 Percona LLC and/or its affiliates Copyright (c) 2000, 2015, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners. Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement. mysql> grant select on test.* to 'testuser'@'%' identified by 'test'; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec) mysql> grant select on test.* to 'testuser'@'10.10.10.%' identified by 'test'; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec) mysql> show grants for 'testuser'@'10.10.10.%'; +------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Grants for testuser@10.10.10.% | +------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | GRANT USAGE ON *.* TO 'testuser'@'10.10.10.%' IDENTIFIED BY PASSWORD '*94BDCEBE19083CE2A1F959FD02F964C7AF4CFC29' | | GRANT SELECT ON `test`.* TO 'testuser'@'10.10.10.%' | | GRANT SELECT ON `test`.* TO 'testuser'@'%' | +------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ 3 rows in set (0.00 sec) mysql> With community server, nilnandan.joshi@bm-support01:~$ mysql -uroot -p --socket=/tmp/mysql_sandbox27002.sock Warning: Using unique option prefix pass instead of password is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. Please use the full name instead. Enter password: Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g. Your MySQL connection id is 4 Server version: 5.6.25-log MySQL Community Server (GPL) Copyright (c) 2009-2015 Percona LLC and/or its affiliates Copyright (c) 2000, 2015, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners. Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement. mysql> grant select on test.* to 'testuser'@'%' identified by 'test'; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.09 sec) mysql> grant select on test.* to 'testuser'@'10.10.10.%' identified by 'test'; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec) mysql> show grants for 'testuser'@'10.10.10.%'; +------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Grants for testuser@10.10.10.% | +------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | GRANT USAGE ON *.* TO 'testuser'@'10.10.10.%' IDENTIFIED BY PASSWORD '*94BDCEBE19083CE2A1F959FD02F964C7AF4CFC29' | | GRANT SELECT ON `test`.* TO 'testuser'@'10.10.10.%' | +------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ 2 rows in set (0.00 sec) mysql>