Mac – I just installed MAMP. How to access thesql through the terminal

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I'm trying to figure out how I can start using mysql through terminal since I'm not much of a fan for phpmyadmin.

I read online where that told me to type this into terminal

/Applications/MAMP/Library/bin/mysql --host=localhost -uroot -proot

and I did and received this

ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES)

I've already setup the permissions through phpmyadmin

What can I be doing wrong, the guy in the tutorial didn't say that I had to include my login/pass anywhere in that link, I also did try including my login/pass and it still wouldn't work, it wouldn't execute, just display the help page for mysql.

What's a good third party application that would let me create tables, and work with MySQL? When I was using Windows I would use mysql maestro and it would do the job really well. Since I'm new to the Mac, what is out there?

Best Answer

Try --host=127.0.0.1 because the mysql client is trying to connect using the standard mysql socket (/tmp/mysql.sock). Specifying an IP address won't use this socket connection. I had to change this in every program to be able to connect to the MAMP database, including Sequel Pro.

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Follow the steps below.

Start the MySQL server instance or daemon with the --skip-grant-tables option (security setting).
```
$ mysqld --skip-grant-tables
```

Execute these statements.

$ mysql -u root mysql
$mysql> UPDATE user SET Password=PASSWORD('my_password') where USER='root';
$mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

If you face the unknown field Password error above use:

update user set authentication_string=password('my_password') where user='root';

Finally, restart the instance/daemon without the --skip-grant-tables option.
```
$ /etc/init.d/mysql restart
```

You should now be able to connect with your new password.

$ mysql -u root -p

Enter password: my_password

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sudo mv /usr/local/mysql/data/ibdata1 /usr/local/mysql/data/ibdata1.bak
sudo mv /usr/local/mysql/data/ib_logfile0 /usr/local/mysql/data/ib_logfile0.bak
sudo mv /usr/local/mysql/data/ib_logfile1 /usr/local/mysql/data/ib_logfile1.bak
sudo cp -a /usr/local/mysql/data/ibdata1.bak /usr/local/mysql/data/ibdata1
sudo cp -a /usr/local/mysql/data/ib_logfile0.bak /usr/local/mysql/data/ib_logfile0
sudo cp -a /usr/local/mysql/data/ib_logfile1.bak /usr/local/mysql/data/ib_logfile1
sudo /etc/init.d/mysql restart

How to have MySQL entitle the machine’s root user

In MySQL 5.5+ you can use the auth_socket authentication plugin for this:

CREATE USER 'root'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED WITH auth_socket;

MariaDB 5.2.0+ has a similar unix_socket plugin – as far as I know, it is even active by default:

INSTALL PLUGIN unix_socket SONAME 'auth_socket';
CREATE USER root IDENTIFIED VIA unix_socket;

Similarly, PostgreSQL has the "local" auth method in its pg_hba.conf and enables it by default.

On Unixes, the general mechanism is often called "peercred", as in SO_PEERCRED. (The Windows equivalent is often called "Windows Native Authentication".)

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