Access Denied For User 'root'@'localhost' (using Password: YES) - No Privileges?
Answer :
If you have that same problem in MySql 5.7.+ :
Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost'
it's because MySql 5.7 by default allow to connect with socket, which means you just connect with sudo mysql
. If you run sql :
SELECT user,authentication_string,plugin,host FROM mysql.user;
then you will see it :
+------------------+-------------------------------------------+-----------------------+-----------+ | user | authentication_string | plugin | host | +------------------+-------------------------------------------+-----------------------+-----------+ | root | | auth_socket | localhost | | mysql.session | *THISISNOTAVALIDPASSWORDTHATCANBEUSEDHERE | mysql_native_password | localhost | | mysql.sys | *THISISNOTAVALIDPASSWORDTHATCANBEUSEDHERE | mysql_native_password | localhost | | debian-sys-maint | *497C3D7B50479A812B89CD12EC3EDA6C0CB686F0 | mysql_native_password | localhost | +------------------+-------------------------------------------+-----------------------+-----------+ 4 rows in set (0.00 sec)
To allow connection with root and password, then update the values in the table with command :
ALTER USER 'root'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED WITH mysql_native_password BY 'Current-Root-Password'; FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
Then run the select command again and you'll see it has changed :
+------------------+-------------------------------------------+-----------------------+-----------+ | user | authentication_string | plugin | host | +------------------+-------------------------------------------+-----------------------+-----------+ | root | *2F2377C1BC54BE827DC8A4EE051CBD57490FB8C6 | mysql_native_password | localhost | | mysql.session | *THISISNOTAVALIDPASSWORDTHATCANBEUSEDHERE | mysql_native_password | localhost | | mysql.sys | *THISISNOTAVALIDPASSWORDTHATCANBEUSEDHERE | mysql_native_password | localhost | | debian-sys-maint | *497C3D7B50479A812B89CD12EC3EDA6C0CB686F0 | mysql_native_password | localhost | +------------------+-------------------------------------------+-----------------------+-----------+ 4 rows in set (0.00 sec)
And that's it. You can run this process after running and completing the sudo mysql_secure_installation
command.
For mariadb, use
SET PASSWORD FOR 'root'@'localhost' = PASSWORD('manager');
to set password. More at https://mariadb.com/kb/en/set-password/
Use the instructions for resetting the root password - but instead of resetting the root password, we'll going to forcefully INSERT a record into the mysql.user table
In the init file, use this instead
INSERT INTO mysql.user (Host, User, Password) VALUES ('%', 'root', password('YOURPASSWORD')); GRANT ALL ON *.* TO 'root'@'%' WITH GRANT OPTION;
It didn't like my user privilege so I SUDO it. (in bash << sudo set user and password) (this gives username of root and sets the password to nothing) (On Mac)
sudo mysql -uroot -p
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