The program has ways to enable and improve the security of the MySQL installation, including:
- Setting passwords for root accounts.
- Removing root accounts that can be accessed outside the localhost.
- Removing anonymous accounts.
- Removing test database privileges that permit anyone to access databases that start with names test_.
- Execute the mysql_secure_installation command without any arguments if you want normal usage with the local MySQL server. It will ask you further to check which actions to perform.
- The validate_password plugin can be used to strengthen password checking. If the plugin is not already installed, it will ask you to install and once installed and enabled, ...