**MARIADB-SECURE-INSTALLATION**(1) MariaDB Database System **MARIADB-SECURE-INSTALLATION**(1)

# [NAME](#NAME)

mariadb-secure-installation - improve MariaDB installation security (mariadb-secure-installation is now a symlink to mariadb-secure-installation)

# [SYNOPSIS](#SYNOPSIS)

**mariadb-secure-installation**

# [DESCRIPTION](#DESCRIPTION)

This program enables you to improve the security of your MariaDB 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.

**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)

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](#SEE_ALSO)

For more information, please refer to the MariaDB Documentation, available online at https://mariadb.com/docs/

# [AUTHOR](#AUTHOR)

MariaDB Foundation (http://www.mariadb.org/).

5 March 2025 MariaDB 11.8

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Document: mariadb-secure-installation(1) from mariadb-12.2 12.2.2-r9 (Chainguard OS)
Source: https://github.com/MariaDB/server.git