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    <p>I'm setting a MySQL server (actually a Percona server, but that shouldn't matter) and I'm setting a password to the root user. At the end, I have this:</p> <pre><code>mysql&gt; select host, user, password from user; +-----------+------------------+-------------------------------------------+ | host | user | password | +-----------+------------------+-------------------------------------------+ | localhost | root | *huge string here, no kidding | | localhost | debian-sys-maint | *another huge string here | +-----------+------------------+-------------------------------------------+ 2 rows in set (0.00 sec) </code></pre> <p>I thought this should not allow the root user to connect without a password. However, if I go to the command line, I can connect with <code>mysql -u root</code> or just <code>mysql</code>. If I do <code>mysql -u root -p</code> and hit enter for the password, then I get <code>ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO).</code></p> <p>Could anyone explain to me how to make sure a user can only connect with a password?</p> <p>Edit: if relevant, I set the password with <code>SET PASSWORD FOR 'root'@'localhost' = PASSWORD('somethinghere');</code></p> <p>Edit: output of <code>show grants</code>, it indicates I used a password to login but I did not.</p> <pre><code>mysql&gt; show grants; +----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Grants for root@localhost | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'root'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY PASSWORD '*huge string here, no kidding' WITH GRANT OPTION | | GRANT PROXY ON ''@'' TO 'root'@'localhost' WITH GRANT OPTION | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ 2 rows in set (0.00 sec) </code></pre>
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    1. CODid you do a `FLUSH PRIVILEGES;` in MySQL after setting the password? You can also try doing `mysqladmin -u root reload` and `mysqladmin -u root refresh` (no password since that's how it seems to want to work at the moment).
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    2. COyes, I do a `FLUSH PRIVILEGES` right after setting them. I ran these two commands you mentioned and nothing changed
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    3. COHmm... if none of that is working, can you just restart MySQL and see if that makes a difference? Not sure what Percona uses for that, but in Debian you do a `sudo /etc/init.d/mysql restart` and in CentOS/RHEL you do `sudo service mysqld restart`
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