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Manual

MARIADB-SECURE-INSTALLATION

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
COPYRIGHT
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR

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NAME

mariadb-secure-installation - improve MariaDB installation security (mariadb-secure-installation is now a symlink to mariadb-secure-installation)

SYNOPSIS

mariadb-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.

mariadb-secure-installation can be invoked without arguments:

shell> mariadb-secure-installation

The script will prompt you to determine which actions to perform.

mariadb-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., 2010-2025 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 Documentation, available online at https://mariadb.com/docs/

AUTHOR

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

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