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MARIADB-SE...NSTALLATION(1)  MariaDB Database System MARIADB-SE...NSTALLATION(1)

NAME
     mariadb-secure-installation  - improve MariaDB installation security (mari-
     adb-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  installa-
     tion 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/).

MariaDB 11.8			  5 March 2025	     MARIADB-SE...NSTALLATION(1)

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