MARIADB-SECURE-INSTALLATION(1) MariaDB Database System 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: o You can set a password for root accounts. o You can remove root accounts that are accessible from outside the local host. o You can remove anonymous-user accounts. o 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: o --basedir=dir_name Base directory. o --defaults-extra-file=file_name Additional option file. o --defaults-file=file_name Option file. o --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/). MariaDB 10.11 15 May 2020 MARIADB-SECURE-INSTALLATION(1)