Grant privileges on MariaDB

Question

I'm trying to grant privileges for user on MariaDB 10, but I've got an error 1045

[root@lw343 ~]# mysql -u root -p
Enter password:
Welcome to the MariaDB monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MariaDB connection id is 42
Server version: 10.0.11-MariaDB MariaDB Server

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MariaDB [mysql]> select user,host from mysql.user;                              
+--------+-----------+
| user   | host      |
+--------+-----------+
| ruser  | %         |
| root   | 127.0.0.1 |
| bill   | localhost |
| nagios | localhost |
| root   | localhost |
+--------+-----------+
5 rows in set (0.00 sec)

MariaDB [mysql]> select user(),current_user();
+----------------+----------------+
| user()         | current_user() |
+----------------+----------------+
| root@localhost | root@localhost |
+----------------+----------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

MariaDB [mysql]> show variables like 'skip_networking';                         
+-----------------+-------+
| Variable_name   | Value |
+-----------------+-------+
| skip_networking | OFF   |
+-----------------+-------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

MariaDB [mysql]> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO root@"localhost" IDENTIFIED BY '**********' WITH GRANT OPTION;
ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES)
MariaDB [mysql]>

I have tried all what I found on the internet, but I've got the same error. I also tried creating new user, but I still got same error on every user I try to grant on.

Does anybody could help me to resolve this problem?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Ok, so first, understand that users are created as username/hostname combinations. So root@localhost is different from [email protected] So for a remote connection you cannot use root@localhost since that is for connecting from localhost

So, create a different user.

Secondly, if root@localhost already exists then don't use identified by since you already have a password....