A general "checklist" for securing MySQL/MariaDB varient relational databases in Linux
Introduction I am back with a a new topic for this week! a couple of months ago, I was playing around with and testing out MySQL database here in Fedora, so that I can learn the ropes for it if I need to configure and use it someday! I decided to create a simple security "checklist" for the first blog entry this week, to help get you moving in the right direction, after reading some suggestions from the manual. Instead of going into a detailed fashion, about what exact steps you need to take to secure the database in the best possible fashion exactly, I am going to list some "general" purpose steps that you can take if you are building a LAMP stack for instance in Linux. Here is the list (It's not exhaustive), but I may or may not add more resources to it in the future! [1] Common Security tips for securing MySQL/MariaDB databases: Make sure that only certain individuals have "root" access to the database (see below) Always put root passwords into