Access denied for user root - mysql on MAC OS

Question

I know how do skip this problem on ubuntu, but how can i do it on MAC OS?

How can i set password for mysql on MAC?

1) Doesn\'t work

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Answer 1

Very Simple Fix for MariaDB version: 10.4.6-MariaD on Mojave macOS

I have gone through all the answers. Some of them worked for me some of them not. I found one simple way to fix this on macOS or OSX. Here are the steps:

Prerequisites:

Homebrew should be installed. Use the following link to install homebrew on macOS or OSX.

Install mariadb:

1. brew install mariadb
2. Start MySQL Server: mysql.server start or run brew services start mariadb to start MySQL Server at login to the computer.
3. Get into MySQL instance sudo mysql -u root

NOTE: mysql -u root will throw error ERROR 1698 (28000): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' so use sudo to run this command.

4. Now to change the password of the root user I tried the following commands:

   1. UPDATE user SET password=PASSWORD("mypassword") WHERE User='root';
      • This has thrown an error: ERROR 1348 (HY000): Column 'Password' is not updatable
   2. UPDATE user SET authentication_string=PASSWORD("mypassword") WHERE User='root';
      • This has thrown an error: ERROR 1348 (HY000): Column 'authentication_string' is not updatable

5. But the following command worked:

   • ALTER USER 'root'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'mypassword';
     • The response was: Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.009 sec)

So, it was a simple fix for me for the version 10.4.6-MariaD installed through brew. Hope this will help you too.