Fatal error: Please read “Security” section of the manual to find out how to run mysqld as root

Question

I am not sure how to fix this:

dyn-72-33-214-45:python mona$ sudo /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqld stop
2014-09-06 09:49:04 0 [Warning] TIMESTAMP with implicit DE         


        

Answer 1

to run mysqld as root user from command line you need to add the switch/options --user=root

mariadb run as system root user

Answer 2

osx could be using launchctl to launch mysql. Try this:

sudo launchctl unload -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.mysql.mysqld.plist

Answer 3

On top of @mise's answer, After I installed MacOS Mojave, I also had to change files ownership on all my MAMP directory and contents).

From the Finder, I went in Application/MAMP, showed files info (cmd + i) and in permissions section added myself with read & write perms, then from the little gear applied to all the children.

Answer 4

The MySQL daemon should not be executed as the system user root which (normally) do not has any restrictions.

According to your cli, I suppose you wanted to execute the initscript instead:

sudo /etc/init.d/mysql stop

Another way would be to use the mysqladmin tool (note, root is the MySQL root user here, not the system root user):

/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqladmin --port=8889 -u root shutdown

Answer 5

Try this for Amazon Linux AMI or for centOS

sudo service mysqld restart

Answer 6

Very weird, but I got this error when I made a typo in the my.cnf file.
So it had nothing to do with the user directive not defined or not running as root-user.

My mistake was:

bind=192.168.1.2

instead of

bind-address=192.168.1.2