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mysql_secure_installation
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:
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.
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
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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
Sun Microsystems, Inc. (http://www.mysql.com/).
MySQL 5.1 04/06/2010 MYSQL_SECURE_INST(1)