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MYSQL_SECURE_INST(1) MariaDB Database System MYSQL_SECURE_INST(1)

mysql_secure_installation - improve MariaDB installation security

mysql_secure_installation

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 2007-2008 MySQL AB, 2008-2010 Sun Microsystems, Inc., 2010-2020 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/.

For more information, please refer to the MariaDB Knowledge Base, available online at https://mariadb.com/kb/

MariaDB Foundation (http://www.mariadb.org/).
15 May 2020 MariaDB 10.6
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