This brief tutorial shows students and new users how to enable self-signed SSL/TLS certificates and connect to MySQL Server via SSL connection on Ubuntu Linux 20.04 | 18.04.

By default when you install MySQL server, it will only allow connections from the local system for users with the correct credentials regardless of transport protocol.

If you want to add another layer of security, you can enable SSL/TLS certificate settings and force all users to connect securely.

For this tutorials, we’re going to be creating a self signed certificate to configure with MySQL.

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