mysql - Automate mysql_secure_installation with echo command via a shell script

Question

I am trying to automate mysql_secure_installation script with automated response. My code is as follows :

echo "& y y abc abc y y y y" | ./usr/bin/mysql_secure_installation

The actual questions which i am automating are as follows:

Enter current password for root (enter for none): <enter>
Set root password? [Y/n] y
New password: abc
Re-enter new password: abc
Remove anonymous users? [Y/n] y
Disallow root login remotely? [Y/n] y
Remove test database and access to it? [Y/n] y
Reload privilege tables now? [Y/n] y

But it gives me an error "Sorry you cannot use an empty password here" but in the screen i used to press the return key for the first question.

Answer 1

I stumbled upon this question but decided to run the queries manually through a Bash script:

#!/bin/bash

# Make sure that NOBODY can access the server without a password
mysql -e "UPDATE mysql.user SET Password = PASSWORD('CHANGEME') WHERE User = 'root'"
# Kill the anonymous users
mysql -e "DROP USER ''@'localhost'"
# Because our hostname varies we'll use some Bash magic here.
mysql -e "DROP USER ''@'$(hostname)'"
# Kill off the demo database
mysql -e "DROP DATABASE test"
# Make our changes take effect
mysql -e "FLUSH PRIVILEGES"
# Any subsequent tries to run queries this way will get access denied because lack of usr/pwd param