Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: Yes) after password reset LINUX

Question

I have a MySQL installed on my linux server, I forgot it\'s password so I went and changed it using the methods I found on the web. What I did was as follows:

Answer 1

I meet the same problem, @progrAmmar enlightened me, "took a closer look at the user table in mysql database".

My problem is not ssl_type, instead of the first field：Host. I changed the value by using

update user set Host='localhost' where User='root' and Host='%';

in mysqld_safe --skip-grant-tables model.

Then it works well.