https://geekyschmidt.com/tags/mysql/Recent content in Mysql onHugo -- 0.155.3enCopyright © 2002–2025, Nicholas Schmidt; all rights reserved.Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:39:47 +0000https://geekyschmidt.com/2008/12/31/securing-mysql/Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:39:47 +0000https://geekyschmidt.com/2008/12/31/securing-mysql/<p>Here is my quick secure guide for MySQL:</p> <ul> <li> <p>Rename root user account</p> <ul> <li>mysql -u root -p</li> <li>use mysql;</li> <li>update user set user=”mydbadmin” where user=”root”;</li> <li>flush privileges;</li> </ul> </li> <li> <p>Set the root password for database</p> <ul> <li>mysqladmin -u mydbadmin password ‘the-new-password’</li> </ul> </li> <li> <p>Drop default test database</p> <ul> <li>mysql -u mydbadmin -p</li> <li>drop database test;</li> <li>quit;</li> </ul> </li> <li> <p>Edit the MySQL server config</p> <ul> <li>vi /etc/my.cnf and under [mysqld]</li> <li>skip-networking &lt;– Disables network access</li> <li>set-variable=local-infile=0 &lt;– prevent against unauthorized reading from local files</li> <li>bind-address=127.0.0.1</li> <li>restart mysql /etc/init.d/mysqld restart</li> </ul> </li> </ul>