MySQL Failed! Error: SET PASSWORD has no significance for user 'root'@'localhost' as the authentication method used doesn't store authentication data in the MySQL server. Please consider using ALTER USER

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When I ran mysql_secure_installation I am getting the following message

... Failed! Error: SET PASSWORD has no significance for user 'root'@'localhost' as the authentication method used doesn't store authentication data in the MySQL server. Please consider using ALTER USER instead if you want to change authentication parameters.

How do I fix this and continue with mysql_secure_installation? running on Ubuntu server?

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  1. Open the terminal application.
  2. Terminate the mysql_secure_installation from another terminal using the killall command:
    sudo killall -9 mysql_secure_installation
  3. Start the mysql client:
    sudo mysql
  4. Run the following SQL query:
ALTER USER 'root'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED WITH mysql_native_password BY 'SetRootPasswordHere';
exit
  1. Then run the following command to secure it:
    sudo mysql_secure_installation
  2. When promoted for the password enter the SetRootPasswordHere (or whatever you set when you ran the above SQL query)
  3. That is all.
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