Question

I have had problem with mysql. I tried to execute this:

echo "show databases" | mysql -B -N

But I got:

ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'debian-sys-maint'@'localhost' (using password: YES)

But when I exec:

/etc/init.d/mysql restart 

I got an ‘OK’.

I did

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES on *.* TO debian-sys-maint@localhost IDENTIFIED BY PASSWORD 'your password' WITH GRANT OPTION; FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

where password is from /etc/mysql/debian.cnf. But it didn’t help. (of course I flushed priv and restarted mysql).

Answer 1

The problem is, your GRANT statement uses IDENTIFIED BY PASSWORD clause, and in this case mysql expect to get a hashed password, not a plaintext one.

Use IDENTIFIED BY 'your password' instead, if you wish to supply a plaintext password.