Securing Your MySQL Installation
Many distributions of Linux have an option to install MySQL. In this case, or even if you compile MySQL, the default password is blank.
Make sure that you set password for the root user. This is the command:
mysql -u root mysql
SET PASSWORD FOR 'root'@'localhost' = PASSWORD('s3cr3tp4s5w0rd');
Posted on June 24th, 2007 by SMD
Filed under: Debian, Open Source, Security, Ubuntu
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