Sequel Pro and MySQL connection failed

Question

I just installed mysql on mac from Homebrew

brew install mysql

mysql -V

mysql  Ver 8.0.11 for osx10.13 on x86_64 (Homebrew)

from termina

Answer 1

1. Assuming you don't have a mysql configuration, echo the following to ~/.my.conf

[mysqld]
default-authentication-plugin=mysql_native_password

2. Sign into mysql with mysql -u root -p
3. Set the root user password with ALTER USER 'root'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED WITH mysql_native_password BY '[PASSWORD]'; where [PASSWORD] is a password of your choosing.
4. Restart mysql with e.g. brew services restart mysql