---
name: "mariadb-secure-installation"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "mariadb"
version: "13.0.2-2"
release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/mariadb-secure-installation"
---

# mariadb-secure-installation(1)

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

## NAME

mariadb-secure-installation - improve MariaDB installation security (mariadb-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 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 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/).