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Manual page and help for the mysql_secure_installation linux command. The mysql_secure_installation program allows you to increase the security of your MariaDB database server in the following ways:
- Set root password
- Remove externally accessible root accounts
- Remove anonymous user accounts
- Remove the test database, which can be accessed by anonymous users by default
Mysql_secure_installation can be called without parameters:
shell> mysql_secure_installation
Man page output
man mysql_secure_installation
MYSQL_SECURE_INST(1) MariaDB Database System MYSQL_SECURE_INST(1) NAME mysql_secure_installation - improve MariaDB installation security SYNOPSIS mysql_secure_installation DESCRIPTION This program enables you to improve the security of your MariaDB installation in the following ways: • You can set a password for root accounts. • You can remove root accounts that are accessible from outside the local host. • You can remove anonymous-user accounts. • You can remove the test database, which by default can be accessed by anonymous users. mysql_secure_installation can be invoked without arguments: shell> mysql_secure_installation The script will prompt you to determine which actions to perform. mysql_secure_installation accepts some options: • --basedir=dir_name Base directory. • --defaults-extra-file=file_name Additional option file. • --defaults-file=file_name Option file. • --no-defaults Don't read any defaults file. Other unrecognized options will be passed on to the server. COPYRIGHT Copyright 2007-2008 MySQL AB, 2008-2010 Sun Microsystems, Inc., 2010-2017 MariaDB Foundation This documentation is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it only under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; version 2 of the License. This documentation is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with the program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1335 USA or see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/. SEE ALSO For more information, please refer to the MariaDB Knowledge Base, available online at https://mariadb.com/kb/ AUTHOR MariaDB Foundation (http://www.mariadb.org/). MariaDB 10.3 9 May 2017 MYSQL_SECURE_INST(1)
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