ERROR 1698 (28000): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost'

Question

I\'m setting up a new server and keep running into this problem.

When I try to login to the MySQL database with the root user, I get the error:

Answer 1

After hours of struggle with no solution here, this worked for me then I found a youtube video where it says the password column is now called authentication_string . So I was able to change my password as follows: First get into mysql from terminal

sudo mysql

then inside mysql type whatever after mysql>

mysql> use mysql
mysql> update user set authentication_string=PASSWORD("mypass") where user='root';
mysql> flush privileges;
mysql> quit;

at this point you are out of mysql back to your normal terminal place. You need to restart mysql for this to take effect. for that type the following:

sudo service mysql restart

Refer to this video link for better understanding