For Ubuntu 18.04 the default installation of mysql-server has socket authentication enabled (if I understand correctly) so it is not possible to set the root pwd using mysql_secure_installation. This is most unfortunate as there is a great deal of apparently authoritative documentation out there that says this is the way to do it. For example https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/mysql-secure-installation.html In addition there are very few references to the fact that instead one has to use the workaround in the bug description.
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