Mysql Access denied for user ‘root’@’localhost’.

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In Ubuntu systems running MySQL 5.7 (and later), the root user is authenticated by the auth_socket plugin by default.

$ sudo mysql #No Username to be the provide

mysql> USE mysql;

mysql> SELECT User, Host, plugin FROM mysql.user;

+——————+———————–+

| User | plugin |

+——————+———————–+

| root | auth_socket |

| mysql.sys | mysql_native_password |

| debian-sys-maint | mysql_native_password |

+——————+———————–+

mysql> UPDATE user SET plugin=’mysql_native_password’ WHERE User=’root’;

mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

mysql> exit;

$ service mysql restart

Right Answer!!

If you want to login to your MySQL server as root from an external program such as phpMyAdmin you have two options.

The first one is to change the authentication method from auth_socket to mysql_native_password. You can do that by running the following command: ALTER USER ‘root’@’localhost’ IDENTIFIED WITH mysql_native_password BY ‘very_strong_password’;FLUSH PRIVILEGES;