[debian-mysql] Question for production installation (for wordpress install)

[Otto Kekäläinen]

Hello!

That advice is outdated. MariaDB in Debian is good to go out of the box, it
is pretty useless to run that script.



ti 17. syysk. 2019 klo 22.34 Serge Cohen <serge.cohen at synchrotron-soleil.fr>
kirjoitti:

> Dear Maintainer team,
>
> I am currently working on setting up a server for a WordPress site.
> Obviously using debian (buster) as OS.
>
> The wiki (https://wiki.debian.org/WordPress) exposes that after
> installing mariadb (as backend DB server) one has to execute the script
> «mysql_secure_installation»
>
> The end of this script is rather clear on the actions it takes :
>
> # Set the root password
> # Remove anonymous users
> # Disallow remote root login
> # Remove test database
> # Reload privilege tables
>
> The concern for me is that this script is interactive (while I'm trying to
> automatise as much as possible the installation) and it seems to me that
> this script is not really useful since most of these actions are already
> taken by the debian package. The only difference being that root (db root)
> is set with no password but unix socket authentication (which to me seems
> even more secure in term of connection).
>
> I could not find a clear recommandation coming directly with the mariadb
> package, so I am wondering if there is any incured risks not running the
> «mysql_secure_installation» after package installation ?
>
> Thank you very much in advance,
>
> Serge.
>
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