之前的答案都没有帮助我解决这个问题，所以这里是我找到的解决方案。

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In Ubuntu systems running MySQL 5.7 (and later versions), the root MySQL user is set to authenticate using the auth_socket plugin by default rather than with a password. This allows for some greater security and usability in many cases, but it can also complicate things when you need to allow an external program (e.g., phpMyAdmin) to access the user. In order to use a password to connect to MySQL as root, you will need to switch its authentication method from auth_socket to mysql_native_password. To do this, open up the MySQL prompt from your terminal: sudo mysql Next, check which authentication method each of your MySQL user accounts use with the following command: SELECT user,authentication_string,plugin,host FROM mysql.user; Output +------------------+-------------------------------------------+-----------------------+-----------+ | user | authentication_string | plugin | host | +------------------+-------------------------------------------+-----------------------+-----------+ | root | | auth_socket | localhost | | mysql.session | *THISISNOTAVALIDPASSWORDTHATCANBEUSEDHERE | mysql_native_password | localhost | | mysql.sys | *THISISNOTAVALIDPASSWORDTHATCANBEUSEDHERE | mysql_native_password | localhost | | debian-sys-maint | *CC744277A401A7D25BE1CA89AFF17BF607F876FF | mysql_native_password | localhost | +------------------+-------------------------------------------+-----------------------+-----------+ 4 rows in set (0.00 sec) In this example, you can see that the root user does in fact authenticate using the auth_socket plugin. To configure the root account to authenticate with a password, run the following ALTER USER command. Be sure to change password to a strong password of your choosing, and note that this command will change the root password you set in Step 2: ALTER USER 'root'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED WITH mysql_native_password BY 'password'; Then, run FLUSH PRIVILEGES which tells the server to reload the grant tables and put your new changes into effect: FLUSH PRIVILEGES; Check the authentication methods employed by each of your users again to confirm that root no longer authenticates using the auth_socket plugin: SELECT user,authentication_string,plugin,host FROM mysql.user; Output +------------------+-------------------------------------------+-----------------------+-----------+ | user | authentication_string | plugin | host | +------------------+-------------------------------------------+-----------------------+-----------+ | root | *3636DACC8616D997782ADD0839F92C1571D6D78F | mysql_native_password | localhost | | mysql.session | *THISISNOTAVALIDPASSWORDTHATCANBEUSEDHERE | mysql_native_password | localhost | | mysql.sys | *THISISNOTAVALIDPASSWORDTHATCANBEUSEDHERE | mysql_native_password | localhost | | debian-sys-maint | *CC744277A401A7D25BE1CA89AFF17BF607F876FF | mysql_native_password | localhost | +------------------+-------------------------------------------+-----------------------+-----------+ 4 rows in set (0.00 sec) You can see in this example output that the root MySQL user now authenticates using a password. Once you confirm this on your own server, you can exit the MySQL shell: exit

根据MariaDB官方文档，在MariaDB 10.4.3及以后版本中，默认安装了unix_socket身份验证插件。

为了禁用它，并恢复到前面的mysql_native_password认证方法，在my.cnf文件的[mysqld]部分中添加下面的行:

[mysqld]
unix_socket=OFF

然后运行:

mysql_install_db --auth-root-authentication-method=normal

然后启动mysqld

这个命令可以正常工作:

mysqladmin -u root password CHANGEME

有关更多信息，请参见配置mysql_install_db恢复到以前的身份验证方法。

在我的Debian 10的情况下，错误

ERROR 1698 (28000): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost'

(好方法)解决了

sudo mysql -u root -p mysql

不好的方法:

mysql -u root -p mysql

打开并编辑/etc/my.cnf或/etc/mysql/my.cnf，具体取决于你的发行版。 在[mysqld]下添加skip-grant-tables 重新启动MySQL 你现在应该可以使用下面的命令MySQL -u root -p登录MySQL 运行mysql> flush特权; 设置新密码ALTER USER 'root'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED by 'NewPassword' 回到/etc/my.cnf，删除/comment skip-grant-tables 重新启动MySQL 现在你可以用新密码mysql -u root -p登录了

解决方法:放弃!

听我说完。我花了整整两天的时间试图让MySQL工作，但没有任何效果，总是被权限错误卡住，没有一个是通过这个问题的答案解决的。我想，如果我继续下去，我会疯掉的。

由于没有耐心，我发送了安装SQLite的命令，只使用了450 KB，它从一开始就工作得很好。

如果你没有圣人的耐心，那就使用SQLite吧，这样可以为你节省大量的时间、精力、痛苦和存储空间。

'-p'参数不要求参数名和值之间有空格。

而不是

./mysqladmin -u root -p 'redacted'

Use

./mysqladmin -u root -p'redacted'

或者只是

./mysqladmin -u root -p

这将提示您输入密码。