<div dir="ltr">grep 'temporary password' /var/log/mysqld.log or mysqld_safe --skip-grant-tables </div><div class="gmail_extra"> <div class="gmail_quote">2018-07-01 19:12 GMT+08:00 Colin Law <<a href="mailto:clanlaw@gmail.com" target="_blank">clanlaw@gmail.com</a>>: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I have installed mysql-server and then run sudo mysql_secure_installation which prompts me to enter a root password. I then run mysql -u root -p and get prompted for the pasword but then I get Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' I have gone round a couple of times being ultra careful with the pwd entry to no avail. The log below shows a server restart and login attempt and I can't see anything wrong. Any suggestions gratefully received. Colin 2018-07-01T11:05:15.498133Z 0 [Warning] TIMESTAMP with implicit DEFAULT value is deprecated. Please use --explicit_defaults_for_timestamp server option (see documentation for more details). 2018-07-01T11:05:15.499689Z 0 [Note] /usr/sbin/mysqld (mysqld 5.7.22-0ubuntu18.04.1) starting as process 15056 ... 2018-07-01T11:05:15.504173Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: PUNCH HOLE support available 2018-07-01T11:05:15.504224Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: Mutexes and rw_locks use GCC atomic builtins 2018-07-01T11:05:15.504230Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: Uses event mutexes 2018-07-01T11:05:15.504235Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: GCC builtin __atomic_thread_fence() is used for memory barrier 2018-07-01T11:05:15.504240Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: Compressed tables use zlib 1.2.11 2018-07-01T11:05:15.504246Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: Using Linux native AIO 2018-07-01T11:05:15.504491Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: Number of pools: 1 2018-07-01T11:05:15.504586Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: Using CPU crc32 instructions 2018-07-01T11:05:15.506091Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: Initializing buffer pool, total size = 128M, instances = 1, chunk size = 128M 2018-07-01T11:05:15.514132Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: Completed initialization of buffer pool 2018-07-01T11:05:15.516438Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: If the mysqld execution user is authorized, page cleaner thread priority can be changed. See the man page of setpriority(). 2018-07-01T11:05:15.528769Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: Highest supported file format is Barracuda. 2018-07-01T11:05:15.583667Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: Creating shared tablespace for temporary tables 2018-07-01T11:05:15.583842Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: Setting file './ibtmp1' size to 12 MB. Physically writing the file full; Please wait ... 2018-07-01T11:05:15.762178Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: File './ibtmp1' size is now 12 MB. 2018-07-01T11:05:15.763759Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: 96 redo rollback segment(s) found. 96 redo rollback segment(s) are active. 2018-07-01T11:05:15.763783Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: 32 non-redo rollback segment(s) are active. 2018-07-01T11:05:15.764577Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: Waiting for purge to start 2018-07-01T11:05:15.814863Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: 5.7.22 started; log sequence number 2590746 2018-07-01T11:05:15.815213Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: Loading buffer pool(s) from /var/lib/mysql/ib_buffer_pool 2018-07-01T11:05:15.815625Z 0 [Note] Plugin 'FEDERATED' is disabled. 2018-07-01T11:05:15.818372Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: Buffer pool(s) load completed at 180701 12:05:15 2018-07-01T11:05:15.822701Z 0 [Warning] Failed to set up SSL because of the following SSL library error: SSL context is not usable without certificate and private key 2018-07-01T11:05:15.822750Z 0 [Note] Server hostname (bind-address): '127.0.0.1'; port: 3306 2018-07-01T11:05:15.822771Z 0 [Note] - '127.0.0.1' resolves to '127.0.0.1'; 2018-07-01T11:05:15.822823Z 0 [Note] Server socket created on IP: '127.0.0.1'. 2018-07-01T11:05:15.833548Z 0 [Note] Event Scheduler: Loaded 0 events 2018-07-01T11:05:15.833993Z 0 [Note] /usr/sbin/mysqld: ready for connections. Version: '5.7.22-0ubuntu18.04.1' socket: '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' port: 3306 (Ubuntu) 2018-07-01T11:05:26.799596Z 2 [Note] Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost'</div> -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div> </div>