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Access denied for installing MYSQL?

Posted October 25, 2014 13.1k views

I tried to follow this tutorial:
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-linux-apache-mysql-php-lamp-stack-on-ubuntu
To install the MYSQL database, but when I get to the command “sudo /usr/bin/mysqlsecureinstallation” and I try to enter my root password of the server, it keeps on tell me I have the wrong password. The error message is as below:

ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user ‘root’@'localhost’ (using password: YES)

I am sure the password I entered is correct.
Any one can provide some help here?

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DarkSaint October 25, 2014

If you still have this problem, try resetting your password using the following steps.

Stop the MySQL Server. On your terminal run these commands: 

sudo /etc/init.d/mysql stop

Then start the mysqld configuration. enter this command

sudo mysqld --skip-grant-tables &

Login to MySQL as root.

mysql -u root mysql

Replace YOURNEWPASSWORD with your new password!

UPDATE user SET Password=PASSWORD('YOURNEWPASSWORD') WHERE User='root'; 
FLUSH PRIVILEGES; exit;

See if it works.
*NOT A VERY SECURE METHOD OF CHANGING/RESETTING PASSWORDS BUT IT SHOULD WORKS

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  • larissawu October 25, 2014

    Thanks for your help!
    I tried to follow the steps , but when I get to entering the command
    sudo mysqld --skip-grant-tables &
    I get error message: “ [Warning] Using unique option prefix keybuffer instead of keybuffer_size is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. Please use the full name instead.”

    What means by use the full name? Sorry for being so dump on this…

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  • kamaln7 October 25, 2014

    As the error says, you should use key_buffer_size instead of key_buffer. Edit /etc/mysql/my.cnf and replace key_buffer with key_buffer_size. Though that is a warning not an error so it shouldn’t affect anything right now but when the key_buffer option gets deprecated MySQL will most likely refuse to start because of an invalid config.

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  • larissawu October 26, 2014

    Thanks the problem is solved now!

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Woet October 25, 2014

MySQL root password is not the same as the server root password.

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karlheinzniebuh May 5, 2015

i followed the steps mentioned above but it does not work, i keep getting this error
*ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user ‘root’@'localhost’ *

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