Hands down the fastest way to set a root password for a newly
initialized mysql db:
$ mysql -u root
set password for root@localhost = password('CHANGEME');
flush privileges;
quit;
Now, log on as:
mysql -u root -p
And you will be prompted for the password that you just set.
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John
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