Connect to mysql server without sudo

Question

The command:

mysql -u root -p

gives the error:

ERROR 1698 (28000): Access denied for user \'root\'@\'localhost\'
         


        

Answer 1

This answer needs to be slightly adapted for mariaDB instead of mysql.

First login as root using sudo:

$ sudo mysql -uroot

Then alter the mariadb root user:

ALTER USER 'root'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED WITH mysql_native_password USING PASSWORD('mypassword');
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

From now on sudo is not longer needed:

$ mysql -uroot -p

Version used: mysql Ver 15.1 Distrib 10.4.13-MariaDB, for osx10.15 (x86_64) using readline 5.1