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Ensure ‘mysqld’ Is Not Started with ‘–skip-grant-tables’ – %WINDIR%my.cnf – Doesn’t exist

Details

If this option is used, all clients of the affected server will have unrestricted access to all databases.

NOTE: Nessus has not performed this check. Please review the benchmark to ensure target compliance.

Solution

Perform the following to establish the recommended state: Open the MySQL configuration (e.g. my.cnf) file and set: skip-grant-tables = FALSE

Supportive Information

The following resource is also helpful.

This control applies to the following type of system Windows.

Source

Updated on July 16, 2022
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