Stuck with Access Denied for user 'root'@'localhost' - Terminal, Mac

Question

I am stuck when trying to access mysql. It\'s my first time so please be patient with me.

Initially I was try to set up Ruby and Rails and everything worked perfrec

Answer 1

I had a similar issue and this worked like a charm -

Later versions of mysql implement a newer authentication scheme, not all libraries are up to date with this. You can revert to classic authentication by adding the following entry into your my.cnf

[mysqld]

# Only allow connections from localhost
bind-address = 127.0.0.1

# Some libraries not compatible with latest authentication scheme as per the SO article [1].
default-authentication-plugin=mysql_native_password

Simply add the following in /private/etc/my.cnf

# Only allow connections from localhost
bind-address = 127.0.0.1

Reference: https://www.reddit.com/r/mysql/comments/ae7rf4/access_denied_for_user_rootlocalhost_mac_os/