MacOSX homebrew mysql root password

Question

For some reason MySQL stopped giving access for root. Uninstalled and reinstalled with Homebrew. Fresh install, fresh tables but when I enter

mysql -u root -         


        

Answer 1

I had this problem on a fresh install on Mac. I installed MariaDB with:

brew install mariadb 

Then started the service:

brew services start mariadb

I was unable to run 'mysql_secure_installation' as it prompted for the root password. Then I noticed in the install output:

mysql_install_db --verbose --user=jonny --basedir=/usr/local/Cellar/ ....

So I tried logging in as the username specified in the mysql_install_db output and was successful e.g.

mysql -u jonny

Then at the mysql prompt if you want to set a password for the root user:

SET PASSWORD FOR 'root'@'localhost' = PASSWORD('ToPsEcReT');