What is the default root pasword for MySQL 5 7

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Cannot login to MySQL database after fresh install with root ID and empty no password like other older MySQL versions do

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None of these answers worked for me on Ubuntu Server 18.04.1 and MySQL 5.7.23. I spent a bunch of time trying and failing at setting the password and auth plugin manually, finding the password in logs (it's not there), etc.

The solution is actually super easy:

sudo mysql_secure_installation

It's really important to do this with sudo. If you try without elevation, you'll be asked for the root password, which you obviously don't have.

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MySQL server 5 7 was already installed by default on my new Linux Mint 19     But  what s the MySQL root password  It turns out that    The default installation uses auth socket for authentication  in lieu of passwords   It allows a password-free login  provided that one is logged into the Linux system with the same user name   To login as the MySQL root user  one can use sudo   sudo mysql --user root   But how to then change the root password   To illustrate what s going on   I created a new user  me   with full privileges  with   mysql gt  CREATE USER  me   localhost  IDENTIFIED BY  my new password   mysql gt  GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON     TO  me   localhost  WITH GRANT OPTION  mysql gt  FLUSH PRIVILEGES    Comparing  me  with  root    mysql gt  SELECT user  plugin  HEX authentication string   FROM mysql user WHERE user    me  or user    root    ------ ----------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------    user   plugin                  HEX authentication string                                                     ------ ----------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------    root   auth socket                                                                                            me     mysql native password   2A393846353030304545453239394634323734333139354241344642413245373537313       ------ ----------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------    Because it s using auth socket  the root password cannot be changed  the SET PASSWORD command fails  and mysql secure installation desn t attain anything         To zap this alternate authentication mode and return the MySQL root user to using passwords   ALTER USER  root   localhost  IDENTIFIED WITH mysql native password BY  SOME NEW ROOT PASSWORD     A good explanation   More details from the MySQL manual

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I just installed Linux Mint 19  based on Ubuntu 18 04  on my machine  I installed MySQL 5 7 from the repo  sudo apt install mysql-server  and surprisingly during installation  the setup didn t prompt to enter root password  As a result I wasn t able to login into MySQL  I googled here and there and tried various answers I found on the net  including the accepted answer above  I uninstalled  purging all dpkgs with mysql in its name  and reinstalled again from the default Linux Mint repositories  NONE works   After hours of unproductive works  I decided to reinstall MySQL from the official page  I opened MySQL download page  https   dev mysql com downloads repo apt  for apt repo and clicked Download button at the bottom right   Next  run it with dpkg   sudo dpkg -i mysql-apt-config 0 8 10-1 all deb   At the installation setup  choose the MySQL version that you d like to install  The default option is 8 0 but I changed it to 5 7  Click OK to quit  After this  you have a new MySQL repo in your Software Sources   Update your repo   sudo apt update   Finally  install MySQL   sudo apt install mysql-server   And now I was prompted to provide root password  Hope it helps for others with this same experience

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In case you want to install mysql or percona unattended  like in my case ansible   you can use following script     first part opens mysql log   second part greps lines with temporary password   third part picks last line  most recent one    last part removes all the line except the password   the result goes into password variable  password   cat  var log mysqld log   grep  A temporary password is generated for    tail -1   sed -n  s   root localhost    p      setting new password  you can use  1 and run this script as a file and pass the argument through the script  newPassword  wh teverYouLikE     resetting temporary password  mysql -uroot -p password -Bse  ALTER USER  root   localhost  IDENTIFIED BY   newPassword

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It seems things were designed to avoid developers to se the root user  a better solution would be   sudo mysql -u root   Then create a normal user  set a password  then use that user to work   create user  user   localhost  identified by  user1234   grant all on your database   to  user   localhost   select host  user from mysql user    Then try to access   mysql -u user -p   Boom

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After a lot of try  I could reset the default password with the following commands  Ubuntu and derivatives    sudo -i mkdir -p  var run mysqld chown mysql mysql  var run mysqld  etc init d mysql stop mysqld safe --skip-grant-tables  amp  mysql -uroot use mysql  update user set authentication string password  YOURPASSWORD   where user  root   update user set plugin  mysql native password  where User  root     flush privileges  quit  sudo  etc init d mysql stop sudo  etc init d mysql start   Sometimes  even after typed in the terminal   mkdir -p  var run mysqld chown mysql mysql  var run mysqld  etc init d mysql stop mysqld safe --skip-grant-tables  amp    I got the error that the mysqld don t exists  So  quit  and type the same commands again    And the final command   sudo  etc init d mysql start   Sometimes doesn t work  Only after restart the computer

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I to was experiencing the same problem and the only thing I was able to do to make it work was to go this route       drop user admin localhost  flush privileges  create user admin localhost identified by  admins password    This allowed me to recreate my username and enter a password for the user name

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There s so many answers out there saying to reinstall mysql or use some combo of  mysqld safe --skip-grant-tables   and   or  UPDATE mysql user SET Password PASSWORD  password     and   or something else          None of it was working for me    Here s what worked for me  on Ubuntu 18 04  from the top  With special credit to this answer for digging me out of the frustration on this        sudo apt install mysql-server   sudo cat  etc mysql debian cnf   Note the lines which read   user       debian-sys-maint password   blahblahblah   Then     mysql -u debian-sys-maint -p Enter password     type  blahblahblah   ie  password from debian cnf  mysql gt  USE mysql mysql gt  SELECT User  Host  plugin FROM mysql user   ------------------ ----------- -----------------------    User               Host        plugin                   ------------------ ----------- -----------------------    root               localhost   auth socket               mysql session      localhost   mysql native password     mysql sys          localhost   mysql native password     debian-sys-maint   localhost   mysql native password    ------------------ ----------- -----------------------  4 rows in set  0 00 sec   mysql gt  UPDATE user SET plugin  mysql native password  WHERE User  root   mysql gt  COMMIT      When you don t have auto-commit switched on   Either   mysql gt  ALTER USER  root   localhost  IDENTIFIED BY  new password     Or      For MySQL 5 7  UPDATE mysql user SET authentication string PASSWORD  new password   where user  root     Then   mysql gt  FLUSH PRIVILEGES  mysql gt  COMMIT      When you don t have auto-commit switched on mysql gt  EXIT    sudo service mysql restart   mysql -u root -p Enter password     Yay   new password  now works

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To do it in non interactive mode  from a script   systemctl start mysqld MYSQL ROOT TMP PSW   grep  temporary password   logpath mysqld log  sed  quot s        quot       POPULATE SCHEMAS WITH ROOT USER  usr bin mysql --connect-expired-password -u root -p  MYSQL ROOT TMP PSW   lt   quot  mysql init script quot   Here s the head of the init script SET GLOBAL validate password policy LOW  FLUSH privileges   SET PASSWORD   PASSWORD  MYSQL ROOT PSW    FLUSH privileges   GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON     TO  root       FLUSH privileges        Then restart the service systemctl restart mysqld

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MySQL 5 7 changed the secure model  now MySQL root login requires a sudo  The simplest  and safest  solution will be create a new user and grant required privileges   1  Connect to mysql  sudo mysql --user root mysql   2  Create a user for phpMyAdmin  CREATE USER  phpmyadmin   localhost  IDENTIFIED BY  some pass   GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON     TO  phpmyadmin   localhost  WITH GRANT OPTION  FLUSH PRIVILEGES    Reference - https   askubuntu com questions 763336 cannot-enter-phpmyadmin-as-root-mysql-5-7

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In my case the data directory was automatically initialized with the --initialize-insecure option  So  var log mysql error log does not contain a temporary password but        Warning  root localhost is created with an empty password   Please   consider switching off the --initialize-insecure option    What worked was   shell gt  mysql -u root --skip-password mysql gt  ALTER USER  root   localhost  IDENTIFIED BY  new password     Details  MySQL 5 7 Reference Manual   2 10 4 Securing the Initial MySQL Account

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After you installed MySQL-community-server 5 7 from fresh on linux  you will need to find the temporary password from  var log mysqld log to login as root     grep  temporary password   var log mysqld log Run mysql secure installation to change new password   ref  http   dev mysql com doc refman 5 7 en linux-installation-yum-repo html

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MySQL 5 7 or newer generates a default temporary password after fresh install   To use MySQL first you would be required to get that password from the log file which is present at the  var log mysqld log  So follow the following process    grep  temporary password   var log mysqld log mysql secure installation    The second command is required to change the password for MySQL and also to make certain other changes like removing temporary databases  allow or disallow remote access to root user  delete anonymous users etc

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As of Ubuntu 20 04 with MySql 8 0   you can set the password that way   login to mysql with sudo mysql -u root  change the password     USE mysql  UPDATE user set authentication string NULL where User  root   FLUSH privileges  ALTER USER  root   localhost  IDENTIFIED WITH caching sha2 password BY  My-N7w And 5ecure-P s5w0rd   FLUSH privileges  QUIT   now you should be able to login with mysql -u root -p  or to phpMyAdmin with username root  and your chosen password  P S  You can also login with user debian-sys-maint  the password is written in the file  etc mysql debian cnf

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