FYI, if you have any difficulty reproducing this issue, I actually
installed the mysql-server package using Puppet (version 3.8.5), not
manually with apt-get. The puppet manifest file contains simply:
package { 'mysql-server':
ensure => 'installed',
}
To run it, simply place the above lines into a file (say) "build.pp" and run
this puppet command:
$ sudo puppet apply build.pp
I suspect this may be relevant.
** Description changed:
Install the 16.04 package mysql-server and immediately run
mysql_secure_installation to set the root database password. When
complete, the root database password you chose doesn't work. You are
locked out from mysql.
- Steps reproduce on a fresh Xenial system:
+ Steps to reproduce this issue on a fresh Xenial system:
1. sudo apt-get install mysql-server
2. sudo mysql_secure_installation
3. Respond to the questions:
- Validate password plugin? No
- New password: foobarblat
- Re-enter new password: foobarblat
- Remove anonymous users? Y
- Disallow root login remotely? Y
- Remove test database and access to it? Y
- Reload privilege tables now? Y
4. mysql -p -u root
Enter password: foobarblat
ERROR 1698 (28000): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost'
Other people have encountered the same problem:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/766334/cant-login-as-mysql-user-root-from-normal-user-account-in-ubuntu-16-04
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