Setting up a MySQL Server

Packages

[mariadb-server][Mariadb Site]
mysql-server-8.0 (included in mariadb-server)
[ufw]

Installation

In my situation I am installing MySQL server on a tower with Ubuntu Server 20.04 I have 3 things I know I will need to do in order to have a successful installation.

Install Mariadb

Using the follwing command:

sudo apt install mariadb-server

I install mariadb/mysql to my system.

Configure host-side firewall

From here using ufw (uncomplicated firewall) I need to configure the firewall to only respond to requests from my public ip address.

sudo ufw allow for [public ip address] to any port 3306

Setting up a user on MySQL

After creating a database and creating a few tables, I created a user and gave the user access to the database and it's tables.

CREATE DATABASE test_database;

USE test_database;

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXIST test_table(
    var1 TEXT NOT NULL,
    var2 INT AUTOINCREMENT,
);

CREATE USER 'user'@'ip address' IDENTIFIED BY Password('password');

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON 'test_database'.* TO 'user'@'ip address';

FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

Conclusion

By using the user credintials that I created in my MySQL server I can now use modules like PyMySQL, or SqlAlchemy in my python projects in the future.

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