NodeJS/mySQL - ER_ECCESS_DENIED_ERROR Access denie

Question

I am attempting to connect to mySQL through a NodeJS file, but I receive the following error:

{ Error: ER_ACCESS_DENIED_ERROR: Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES)
    at Handshake.Sequence._packetToError (/home/matthew/Node/mySqlTest/node_modules/mysql/lib/protocol/sequences/Sequence.js:30:14)
    at Handshake.ErrorPacket (/home/matthew/Node/mySqlTest/node_modules/mysql/lib/protocol/sequences/Handshake.js:67:18)
    at Protocol._parsePacket (/home/matthew/Node/mySqlTest/node_modules/mysql/lib/protocol/Protocol.js:197:24)
    at Parser.write (/home/matthew/Node/mySqlTest/node_modules/mysql/lib/protocol/Parser.js:62:12)
    at Protocol.write (/home/matthew/Node/mySqlTest/node_modules/mysql/lib/protocol/Protocol.js:37:16)
    at Socket.ondata (_stream_readable.js:555:20)
    at emitOne (events.js:101:20)
    at Socket.emit (events.js:188:7)
    at readableAddChunk (_stream_readable.js:176:18)
    at Socket.Readable.push (_stream_readable.js:134:10)
    --------------------
    at Protocol._enqueue (/home/matthew/Node/mySqlTest/node_modules/mysql/lib/protocol/Protocol.js:110:26)
    at Protocol.handshake (/home/matthew/Node/mySqlTest/node_modules/mysql/lib/protocol/Protocol.js:42:41)
    at Connection.connect (/home/matthew/Node/mySqlTest/node_modules/mysql/lib/Connection.js:81:18)
    at Connection._implyConnect (/home/matthew/Node/mySqlTest/node_modules/mysql/lib/Connection.js:222:10)
    at Connection.query (/home/matthew/Node/mySqlTest/node_modules/mysql/lib/Connection.js:137:8)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/matthew/Node/mySqlTest/index.js:11:12)
    at Module._compile (module.js:570:32)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:579:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:487:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (module.js:446:12)
  code: 'ER_ACCESS_DENIED_ERROR',
  errno: 1045,
  sqlState: '28000',
  fatal: true }

The weird thing is that I can connect fine through the terminal by running mysql -u root -p. I only get this error when running my javascript. I have been all over Google and StackOverflow, but still have not found a solution that works. I am using MySQL 5.7.16 on Ubuntu 16.04.1 on a VIRTUAL MACHINE. Not sure if a VM makes a difference here. My Javascript code is below:

'use strict';                                                                                                                                      

var mysql = require('mysql');

var connection = mysql.createConnection({
    host: 'localhost',
    user: 'root',
    password: 'password'
});

connection.query(
    'SELECT "foo" AS first_field, "bar" AS second_field',
    function(err, results, fields) {
        console.log(err);
        console.log(results);
        connection.end();
    }
);

I have tried using 'locahost' as well as '127.0.0.1' in my javascript. I have a 'root' user for both 'localhost' and '127.0.0.1' in mySql.user table and I am able to see this by executing SELECT user, host FROM mysql.user WHERE user='root';

I have added privileges to 'root' user by executing this:

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'root'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';

I ran the above on 127.0.0.1 as well. I have also tried this:

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'root'@'localhost' WITH GRANT OPTION

I have attempted to reset the root password like this: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MysqlPasswordReset

I have run FLUSH PRIVILEGES after each attempt. I've stopped and restarted mySQL. I have uninstalled mySQL completely and reinstalled.

All to no avail. I receive the access denied error every time I try to run the javascript, but I have absolutely no issues when I connect to mySQL via the terminal.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

I have faced this issue by giving the full user name in the user section when I changed the 'root'@'localhost' to 'root' It is working fine now.

var mysql = require('mysql');

 var con = mysql.createConnection({
  host: hostname,
  user: "root",
  password: "rootPassword"
 });

 con.connect(function(err) {
  if (err) throw err;
  console.log("Connected!");
 });

Answer 2

I had a similar problem. I was running mysql in a Docker container and had the same error when trying to connect to it from my node app.

It appeared, that I had run the Docker container without exposing the port, hence it was 3306 inside the container, but would not have been accessible through localhost:3306. Why I got ER_ACCESS_DENIED_ERROR error was because I actually had some other mysql server running on the port 3306, with different username and password.

To see if or what you have running on the specific port type:

ps axu | grep 3306

Since I already had something on port 3306, to make the server accessible to my app I changed a port to 3307 and run my docker mysql container with the command:

docker run --name=<name> -e MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=<password> -p 3307:3306 -d mysql

After starting mysql client inside Docker with command:

docker exec -it <name> mysql -u root -p

And after creating a database to connect to, I was able to connect to my mysql db from my node app with these lines:

 const connection = mysql.createConnection({
    host: 'localhost',
    user: 'root',
    password: 'password',
    database: 'database',
    port: 3307
 });

 connection.connect();

Hopefully helps someone new to docker and mysql :)

Answer 3

If you are connecting to an external server from localhost, you may need to add your gateway router address to MySQL's "Allowable Hosts" box.

This address can be found after the @ sign in the error message:

Access denied for user 'your_username'@'blah.blah.blah.yourisp.com'

Answer 4

For me the problem was having inside the SQL connection object pass: 'mypassword' instead of password: 'mypassword'.

Answer 5

//surprisingly this works.

var mysql = require('mysql');
var con = mysql.createConnection({
  host: "localhost",
  user: "root",
  password: ""
});

con.connect(function(err) {
  if (err) throw err;
  console.log("Connected!");
});

Answer 6

I have the same problem, I solved it by changing the password to empty string.

var mysql = require('mysql');
var connection = mysql.createConnection({
    host: 'localhost',
    user: 'root',
    password: ''
});