Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES) after new installation on Ubuntu

Question

Today I did a login as root into Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS ll

and then apt-get install mariadb-server (without sudo but as root).

With mySQL -h l

Answer 1

Try the command

sudo mysql_secure_installation

press enter and assign a new password for root in mysql/mariadb.

If you get an error like

ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock'

enable the service with

service mysql start

now if you re-enter with

mysql -u root -p

if you follow the problem enter with sudo su and mysql -u root -p now apply permissions to root

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

this fixed my problem in MariaDB.

Good luck