I just got a new macbook pro (OS X 10.8.2) and am attempting to get mysql set up on it. So far I've been able to get it installed but I cannot get my root user access (or any user for that matter). I plan on using this for Python
, on my other computer I only use MYSQL (no MAMP) and I prefer to keep it that way.
For reference, I did the following:
$ alias mysql=/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql
$ sudo /Library/StartupItems/MySQLCOM/MySQLCOM start
$ alias mysqladmin=/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqladmin
When i enter mysql
or mysql -u root -p
it gives me this:
ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES)
or
ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'jmitch'@'localhost' (using password: NO)
Depending on which phrasing I use
MYSQL is running in my system preferences. Thank you for your help.
Maybe updating the package the updater overwrote the root password.
To restore it:
Stop mysqld deamons.
$ sudo service mysqld stop
Go to mysql/bin directory
$ cd /usr/bin
Start a mysql deamon with this option:
$ sudo mysqld_safe --skip-grant-tables
Open another terminal and open a mysql session to execute this:
$ mysql
mysql> use mysql;
see Note1 below for next line.
mysql> UPDATE user SET password=PASSWORD('YOUR_NEW_PASSWORD_HERE') WHERE user = 'root';
mysql> exit;
Now kill the mysqld_safe process and restart mysqld normally:
$ sudo service mysqld start
Note1: password
is the column name in table mysql.user
prior to version 5.7. After which it became authentication_string
. Change your update statement accordingly.
on Mac OSX 10.9 Mavericks I used the 'mysql.server' script in the support-files directory instead of the mysqld_safe and service script.
$sudo ./mysql.server stop
$sudo ./mysql.server start --skip-grant-tables
$ mysql
mysql> use mysql;
mysql> UPDATE user SET password=PASSWORD('YOUR_NEW_PASSWORD_HERE') WHERE user = 'root';
mysql> exit;
$sudo ./mysql.server stop
$sudo ./mysql.server start
I was having a similar issue trying to access MAMP's MySQL through the terminal on Mountain Lion.
The --no-defaults flag solved it for me.
/Applications/MAMP/Library/bin/mysql --no-defaults -u root -proot -h localhost
I want to add that for MySQL 5.7 simply changing the authentication_string column doesn't work. This is because MySQL never actually uses those values for root authentication, it uses a plugin. As far as I can tell this plugin verifies that you are also root on the host account (so you have to sudo mysql -u root).
The only way I was able to get this to work was to run this:
UPDATE mysql.user
SET authentication_string=PASSWORD(''), plugin=''
WHERE mysql.user = 'root';
It should also be noted that the official MySQL documentation for 5.7 never mentions this. Following this documentation to the letter gets you nowhere at all.