mysql_secure_installation(1) — Linux manual page
MARIADB-SECURE-INST(1) MariaDB Database System MARIADB-SECURE-INST(1)
NAME
mariadb-secure-installation - improve MariaDB installation
security (mysql_secure_installation is now a symlink to mariadb-
secure-installation)
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.,
2010-2020 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/.
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/).
COLOPHON
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page, see ⟨https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/reporting-bugs/⟩.
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