Other names may be trademarks of their respective Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or itsĪffiliates. Commands end with or \g.Ĭopyright (c) 2000, 2020, Oracle and/or its affiliates. The command will connect MySQL server as root user and the console will be shown on screen like this: Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Now, you can log in to MySQL console by entering the command below: sudo mysql Just keep answering them by hitting y.ĭoing all above steps, you have successfully secured your MySQL server. In the next step, you will be asked to Remove anonymous users, Disallow root login remotely, Remove test database and access to it, and Reload privileges tables now.
#UBUNTU INSTALL PHPMYADMIN MYSQL PASSWORD#
Estimated strength of the password: 100ĭo you wish to continue with the password provided?(Press y|Y for Yes, any other key for No) : y Here’s the output you will receive on screen. Once you confirm the password is strong enough to keep, you can enter y as answer when prompted. In such case, you need to try entering another strong password. If the plugin finds your password as weak, it will show the less estimated strength value. Since you enabled the password validation plugin for MySQL, you will be shown with the password strength as well to meet your desired answer ( 2 = Strong).
Once you enter the answer, you will next be asked to enter a strong password, and re-enter the same to confirm the password for MySQL root user. Since it’s recommended to keep a strongest password level always for your MySQL root user, you should select 2 in the provided option. You will be asked to select a level of password validation. Please enter 0 = LOW, 1 = MEDIUM and 2 = STRONG: 2 STRONG Length >= 8, numeric, mixed case, special characters and dictionary file MEDIUM Length >= 8, numeric, mixed case, and special characters There are three levels of password validation policy: LOW Length >= 8 Here’s the output you will receive on screen: You can also press other keys if you wish not to secure your MySQL with password. Would you like to setup VALIDATE PASSWORD plugin? It checks the strength of passwordĪnd allows the users to set only those passwords which are VALIDATE PASSWORD PLUGIN can be used to test passwordsĪnd improve security.
In order to do so, we suggest to use a strong and unique password. This is necessary to make sure if your MySQL will reject any query to access the databases unless a matched password is entered. In order to execute the preinstalled MySQL security script, run the command here: sudo mysql_secure_installationĭoing this will ask you to configure the VALIDATE PASSWORD PLUGIN. This is basically done by running a security script which comes pre-installed with MySQL. Secure, means to remove some default insecure settings from the database management server. Now, it’s suggested to secure your MySQL installation.
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