Access denied for root user in MySQL command-line

Question

I've just installed xampp, and am using command line to write mySQL. I am using 'root' with no password and can connect to mysql but cannot CREATE DATABASE as I get the error 1044 access denied for user '' @ 'localhost'. I am logged in as -uroot.

I have privileges in phpMyadmin to do what I want, but, in command line I seem to have no write privileges. I've looked at all the other related posts on this topic but to no avail. I cannot GRANT privileges as I have none anyway.

Answer 1

Are you logging into MySQL as root? You have to explicitly grant privileges to your "regular" MySQL user account while logged in as MySQL root.

First set up a root account for your MySQL database.

In the terminal type:

mysqladmin -u root password 'password' 

To log into MySQL, use this:

mysql -u root -p 

To set the privileges manually start the server with the skip-grant-tables option, open mysql client and manually update the mysql.user table and/or the mysql.db tables. This can be a tedious task though so if what you need is an account with all privs I would do the following.

Start the server with the skip-grant-tables option

Start mysql client (without a username/password)

Issue the command

flush privileges; 

which forces the grant tables to be loaded.

Create a new account with the GRANT command something like this (but replacing username and password with whatever you want to use.

GRANT ALL on *.* to 'username'@'localhost' identified by 'password'; 

Restart the server in normal mode (without skip-grant-tables) and log in with your newly created account.

Refer this MySQL docs.