https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/how-to-access-mysql-in-hadoop-VM-from-host-machine/m-p/138741#M101370 <P><A rel="user" href="https://community.cloudera.com/users/4700/inamrehman05.html" nodeid="4700">@Inam Ur Rehman </A></P><P>Unlike your original query which was related to Sandbox based mysql (that uses 'hadoop' as root user password by default) , Your current query is very specific to MySQL instead of HDP Sandbox specific settings. </P><P>You should refer to standard MySQL documentation in order to know how to reset the root passwords: <A href="https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/resetting-permissions.html">https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/resetting-permissions.html</A></P><P>- If you will use default sandbox then the mysql root user password will be 'hadoop'.</P><P><A rel="user" href="https://community.cloudera.com/users/4700/inamrehman05.html" nodeid="4700"></A> </P> Thu, 09 Mar 2017 22:32:41 GMT jsensharma 2017-03-09T22:32:41Z