XAMPP set root user password for MariaDB

Question

How do you set the root user password for MariaDB in XAMPP on Ubuntu/Kubuntu 16.04?

By default the root user does not have a password set.

I\'m using XAMPP 7.1.1

Answer 1

I managed to do it on both Windows and Linux. On Windows, open command prompt, change directory to \xampp\mysql\bin and use mysqladmin to set password for root user i.e.

cd \xampp\mysql\bin
mysqladmin --user=root password "your_password"

On Linux (Ubuntu/Kubuntu), open terminal emulator and change directory to /opt/lampp/bin i.e.

cd /opt/lampp/bin
./mysqladmin --user=root password "your_password"

Answer 2

I had the same problem fixed it like this:

sudo mysqld_safe --skip-grant-tables &
mysql -u root
use mysql;
update user set password=PASSWORD("mynewpassword") where User='root';
update user set plugin="mysql_native_password";
quit;

Restart the database and you are good.

Key was this line:

update user set plugin="mysql_native_password";

Answer 3

This link to Meer's World made it easy for me because it's done through the phpMyAdmin screens directly and then the config.inc.php file. I tried the SQL query and command line methods described elsewhere and none worked properly. This was easy.