NOTE: you can ensure that with the following command `rpm -qc [package]`.
Navigate to the line that begins with the bind-address directive. It will look like this:
you could set this directive to a wildcard IP address, either *, ::, or 0.0.0.0:
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bind-address = 0.0.0.0
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After changing this line, save and close the file and then restart the MySQL service:
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sudo systemctl restart {mysqld|mariadb}
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== Creating a USER
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CREATE USER 'your_username'@'host_ip_addr' IDENTIFIED BY 'your_password';
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NOTE: Replace your_username and your_password depending on what you want the username and password to be. Here, host_ip_addr is the hostname or IP address of the computer from where you want to connect to the MySQL/MariaDB server. You can also use % as host_ip_addr if you want to connect from any computer. It can also be something like 192.168.2.% if you want to connect from computers from the IP range 192.168.2.1 – 192.168.2.254.
== Allow Access
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GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'your_username'@'%';
IDENTIFIED BY 'my-new-password' WITH GRANT OPTION;
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#OR
It is common for people to want to create a "root" user that can connect from anywhere, so as an example, we'll do just that, but to improve on it we'll create
a root user that can connect from anywhere on the local area network (LAN)
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GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'root'@'192.168.100.%'
IDENTIFIED BY 'my-new-password' WITH GRANT OPTION;
