This is the error I got while logging in as root user to MySQL database for the very first time.
ERROR 1698 (28000): Access denied for user ‘root’@’localhost’
I didn’t do anything wrong while logging in.
$ mysql -u root -p
Enter password:
ERROR 1698 (28000): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost'Ubuntu uses Unix authorisation socket plugin, which will consider the unix user from which you launch mysql client. So I need to jump in as root to execute mysql client as shown below.
$ sudo mysql -u root -p
Enter password:
Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 9
Server version: 8.0.26-0ubuntu0.20.04.3 (Ubuntu)
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