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MYSQL_SECURE_INST(1) MySQL Database System MYSQL_SECURE_INST(1)

NAME

mysql_secure_installation - improve MySQL installation security

SYNOPSIS

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 anonymous users.

Invoke mysql_secure_installation without arguments:

shell> mysql_secure_installation

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

COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2007-2008 MySQL AB, 2008-2010 Sun Microsystems, Inc.

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 MySQL Reference Manual, which may already be installed locally and which is also available online at http://dev.mysql.com/doc/.

AUTHOR

Sun Microsystems, Inc. (http://www.mysql.com/).

04/06/2010 MySQL 5.1