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NAME¶
mysql_secure_installation - improve MySQL installation securitySYNOPSIS¶
mysql_secure_installation
DESCRIPTION¶
This program enables you to improve the security of your MySQL 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 all users, even anonymous users), and privileges
that permit anyone to access databases with names that start with test_.
mysql_secure_installation helps you implement security recommendations
similar to those described at Section 2.10.4, “Securing the
Initial MySQL Accounts”.
Invoke mysql_secure_installation without arguments:
shell> mysql_secure_installation
COPYRIGHT¶
Copyright © 1997, 2016, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 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 02110-1301 USA or see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.SEE ALSO¶
For more information, please refer to the MySQL Reference Manual, which may already be installed locally and which is also available online at http://dev.mysql.com/doc/.AUTHOR¶
Oracle Corporation (http://dev.mysql.com/).03/02/2016 | MySQL 5.6 |