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

Question

I\'m setting up a new server and keep running into this problem.

When I try to login to the MySQL database with the root user, I get the error:

Answer 1

I also faced the same issue at the first time.

Now it is fixed:

First, you copy the /etc/mysql/mysql.conf.d/mysqld.cnf file and past in to /etc/mysql/my.cnf.

You can do it by command:

sudo cp /etc/mysql/mysql.conf.d/mysqld.cnf /etc/mysql/my.cnf

Now let's Rest the password:

Use the following commands in your terminal:

sudo service mysql stop 
sudo service mysql start
sudo mysql -u root

Now you are inside the mysql console.

Then let's write some queries to reset our root password

USE mysql
update mysql.user set authentication_string=password('newpass') where user='root' and Host ='localhost';
update user set plugin="mysql_native_password"; 
flush privileges;
quit

Now we can clean /etc/mysql/my.cng

Open the above file in your editor and remove the whole lines inside the file.

After that let's restart mysql:

sudo mysql service restart 

Now let's use mysql with newly created password:

sudo mysql -u root -p

Finally enter your newly created password.