https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/how-to-access-mysql-in-hadoop-VM-from-host-machine/m-p/138732#M101361 <P><A rel="user" href="https://community.cloudera.com/users/4700/inamrehman05.html" nodeid="4700">@Inam Ur Rehman</A></P><P>Try specifying the password as "hadoop" if you are using sandbox.</P><PRE># mysql -u root -p Enter password: hadoop</PRE><P>.</P><P>- But if you have changed mysql root password then you might want to look at the following link which talks about If you assigned a root password previously but have forgotten it, you can assign a new password. <A href="https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/resetting-permissions.html" target="_blank">https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/resetting-permissions.html</A></P> Sun, 05 Mar 2017 21:25:32 GMT jsensharma 2017-03-05T21:25:32Z