Post-installation¶

Depending on the type of installation, you may need to do the following tasks:

Installed using binary files or compiling from source¶

Task
Initialize the data dictionary
Test the server
Set service to start at boot time

Initialize the data directory¶

If you install the server using either the source distribution or generic binary distribution files, the data directory is not initialized, and you must run the initialization process after installation.

Run mysqld with the –initialize option or the initialize-insecure option.

Executing mysqld with either option does the following:

Verifies the existence of the data directory
Initializes the system tablespace and related structures
Creates system tables including grant tables, time zone tables, and server-side help tables
Creates root@localhost

You should run the following steps with the mysql login.

Navigate to the MySQL directory. The example uses the default location.
```
$ cd /usr/local/mysql
```
Create a directory for the MySQL files. The secure_file_priv uses the directory path as a value.
```
$ mkdir mydata
```
The mysql user account should have the drwxr-x--- permissions. Four sections define the permissions; file or directory, User, Group, and Others.

The first character designates if the permissions are for a file or directory. The first character is d for a directory.

The rest of the sections are specified in three-character sets.

Permission User Group Other

Read Yes Yes No

Write Yes No No

Execute Yes Yes No
Run the command to initialize the data directory.
```
$ bin/mysqld --initialize
```

Test the server¶

After you have initialized the data directory, and the server is started, you can run tests on the server.

This section assumes you have used the default installation settings. If you have modified the installation, navigate to the installation location. You can also add the location by Setting the Environment Variables.

You can use the mysqladmin client to access the server.

If you have issues connecting to the server, use the root user and the root account password.

$ sudo mysqladmin -u root -p version

Expected output

Enter password:
mysql Ver 8.4.3-3 for debian-linux-gnu on x86_64 (Percona Server (GPL), Release '10', Revision 'f446c04')
...
Server version      8.4.3-3
Protocol version    10
Connection          Localhost via UNIX socket
UNIX socket         /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock
Uptime:             4 hours 58 min 10 section

Threads:    2 Questions:    16 Slow queries: 0 Opens: 139 Flush tables: 3
Open tables: 59  Queries per second avg: 0.0000

Use mysqlshow to display database and table information.

$ sudo mysqlshow -u root -p

Expected output

Enter password:

+---------------------+
|      Databases      |
+=====================+
| information_schema  |
+---------------------+
| mysql               |
+---------------------+
| performance_schema  |
+---------------------+
| sys                 |
+---------------------+

Set service to run at boot time¶

After a generic binary installation, manually configure systemd support.

The following commands start, check the status, and stop the server:

$ sudo systemctl start mysqld
$ sudo systemctl status mysqld
$ sudo systemctl stop mysqld

Run the following command to start the service at boot time:

$ sudo systemctl enable mysqld

Run the following command to prevent a service from starting at boot time:

$ sudo systemctl disable mysqld

All installations¶

Task
Update the root password
Secure the server
Populate the time zone tables

Update the root password¶

During an installation on Debian/Ubuntu, you are prompted to enter a root password. On Red Hat Enterprise Linux and derivatives, you update the root password after installation.

Restart the server with the --skip-grant-tables option to allow access without a password. This option is insecure. This option also disables remote connections.

$ sudo systemctl stop mysqld
$ sudo systemctl set-environment MYSQLD_OPTS="--skip-grant-tables"
$ sudo systemctl start mysqld 
$ mysql

Reload the grant tables to be able to run the ALTER USER statement. Enter a password that satisfies the current policy.

mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
mysql> ALTER USER 'root'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'rootPassword_12';
mysql> exit

If, when adding the password, MySQL returns ERROR 1819 (HY000) Your password does not satisfy the current policy, run the following command to see policy requirement.

mysql> SHOW VARIABLES LIKE 'validate_password%';

Redo your password to satisfy the requirements.

Stop the server, remove the --skip-grant-tables option, start the server, and log into the server with the updated password.

$ sudo systemctl stop mysqld 
$ sudo systemctl unset-environment MYSQLD_OPTS 
$ sudo systemctl start mysqld 
$ mysql -u root -p

Secure the server¶

The mysql_secure_installation script improves the security of the instance.

The script does the following:

Changes the root password
Disallows remote login for root accounts
Removes anonymous users
Removes the test database
Reloads the privilege tables

The following statement runs the script:

$ mysql_secure_installation

Populate the time zone tables¶

The time zone system tables are the following:

time_zone
time_zone_leap_second
time_zone_name
time_zone_transition
time_zone_transition_type

If you install the server using either the source distribution or the generic binary distribution files, the installation creates the time zone tables, but the tables are not populated.

The mysql_tzinfo_to_sql program populates the tables from the zoneinfo directory data available in Linux.

A common method to populate the tables is to add the zoneinfo directory path to mysql_tzinfo_to_sql and then send the output into the mysql system schema.

The example assumes you are running the command with the root account. The account must have the privileges for modifying the mysql system schema.

$ mysql_tzinfo_to_sql /usr/share/zoneinfo | mysql -u root -p -D mysql

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Last update: 2023-10-26

Permission	User	Group	Other
Read	Yes	Yes	No
Write	Yes	No	No
Execute	Yes	Yes	No