my. cnf file in your user’s home directory, MySQL would allow you to login without prompting you for a password. Make sure to update your MySQL credentials accordingly, then save the file and exit. After that, if you run just mysql you will be authenticated directly with the credentials that you’ve specified in the ~/.Access MySQL without password locally may be sometimes needed and quite handy for various reasons like for example if you are a very passionate database developer or just occasionally doing DBA stuff and you desperately need to quickly access a specific database or table, can be quite annoying to type in your username and password each time you are using the console.

Can we connect to MySQL as root without password?

In case you have freshly installed the MySQL/MariaDB server, then it doesn’t require any password to connect to it as root user.

How to login without passing user and password in MySQL?

MySQL allow us to login without passing the user and password by putting the user and password in my.cnf. Please check the my.cnf which usually in /etc/mysql/ or if you have overrides you can find it in ~/.my.cnf.

How to connect or run MySQL without root password?

How to Connect or Run MySQL Without Root Password. To run MySQL commands without entering password on the terminal, you can store your user and password in the ~/.my.cnf user specific configuration file in user’s home directory as described below.

How do I login to MySQL on the command line?

One way to login to MySQL is to append your password right after the -p flag: However, using a password on the command line interface can be insecure. This will also be recorded in your bash history.

What to do if I Forgot my MySQL password?

If you have forgotten your password or you can not login you can always run mysql in a “safe_mode”. Which allows you to access it without any password restriction – to change the root password or adjust something else if something went wrong.