mysql_secure_installation - Man Page

• Start an interactive setup: mysql_secure_installation
• Use specific host and port: mysql_secure_installation --host=host --port=port
• Display help: mysql_secure_installation --help

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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.

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

MariaDB Foundation (http://www.mariadb.org/).

The man page mariadb-secure-installation(1) is an alias of mysql_secure_installation(1).