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Asked: 2026-06-12T08:04:34+00:00

I set RootPermitLogin to ‘no’ and locked system ‘root’ account with passwd -l. Anyway

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I set RootPermitLogin to ‘no’ and locked system ‘root’ account with passwd -l. Anyway I thought that MySQL ‘root’ account was something “different” from the system one! The problem is that now if I try a command like (for example):

zcat db.sql.gz | mysql -u root -p db_name

I get: ERROR 1045 (28000):

Access denied for user ‘root’@’localhost’ (using password: YES)

Ok I locked my system ‘root’ account but I previously set a DIFFERENT password for my MySQL ‘root’ account! What’s happening here? And the strange thing is that I get this error when I try to execute these commands but applications like WordPress or SMF manage to connect to their database using the same MySQL ‘root’ account password..

I’m on Ubuntu 12.04.

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  1. Editorial Team

    MySQL root account is internal MySQL administrative account.

    Linux root user account is something completely diffrent and its not related with MySQL.

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