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Password for MySQL

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New Contributor

I've installed Cloudera VM 5.3.0 with VMware 11.0 on Windows 8.1. I'm trying to connect to MySQL with CLI and I typed

mysql -u root -p cloudera, but I can't connect to MySql.

Is "cloudera" the correct password ?

 

Best regards,

1 ACCEPTED SOLUTION

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> mysql -u root -p cloudera

Try

$ mysql -uroot -pcloudera (no space between -p and password)





Regards,
Gautam Gopalakrishnan

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> mysql -u root -p cloudera

Try

$ mysql -uroot -pcloudera (no space between -p and password)





Regards,
Gautam Gopalakrishnan

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New Contributor

Thank you for your answer. It works!

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Explorer
It works. Thanks

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Explorer

Thanks. This works.

Could you please point me how and where did you find this user id and password.

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Explorer

It works like charm. 🙂

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Explorer
Why ? Can you explain the reason?

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New Contributor

Please try both mysql -uroot -pcloudera and mysql -uroot.

One of them definitely work.

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New Contributor

mysql -uroot

 

its work for me for cloudera on windows10.

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Explorer

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