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Building a Web Application with PHP and MariaDB: A Reference Guide

You're reading from   Building a Web Application with PHP and MariaDB: A Reference Guide Build fast, secure, and interactive web applications using this comprehensive guide

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2014
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ISBN-13 9781783981625
Length 200 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Sai S Sriparasa Sai S Sriparasa
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Preface 1. CRUD Operations, Sorting, Filtering, and Joins 2. Advanced Programming with MariaDB FREE CHAPTER 3. Advanced Programming with PHP 4. Setting Up Student Portal 5. Working with Files and Directories 6. Authentication and Access Control 7. Caching 8. REST API 9. Security 10. Performance Optimization Index

Securing MariaDB


In this section, we will cover a few topics that will help us secure our MariaDB database server. A few issues that we will cover in this section are:

  • Password-protected access

  • Building views to restrict access

  • Creating users and granting access

Password-protected access

During the MariaDB installation process, the user is normally prompted to enter a password for the root user. It is not required to enter a password; users can hit escape to avoid entering a password. As we are trying to secure the installation, let's go over the steps to protect access by adding a password if the password was not added initially. We will use mysqladmin for this process and enter the following command:

mysqladmin –u root password <userpassword>

In this snippet, we set the new password of the root user. From here on, we will need this password to log in as the root user. Now that we have added the password to the root user, let's log in as the root user and go over the concepts of views...

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