Hello,   I'm working of installing a brand new cluster, on a fresh dedicated MySql Instance. Servernames : SCM : scmtst Mysql : mysqltst001 CDH 5.12.1 freshly downalod & Installed MySQL 5.7.19 MySql connector 5.1.44 CentOs 7.3, configured according to Cloudera specs   When i ran scm_prepare_database.sh on SCM, i keep getting "Access denied for user 'admin@'scmtst'"   /usr/share/cmf/schema/scm_prepare_database.sh -u admin -h mysqltst001 -P 3306 -p mysql scmdb scmuser    [root@scmtst ~]# /usr/share/cmf/schema/scm_prepare_database.sh -u admin -h mysqltst001 -P 3306 -p mysql scmdb scmuser Enter database password: Enter SCM password: JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/latest/ Verifying that we can write to /etc/cloudera-scm-server Wed Oct 11 14:50:28 CEST 2017 WARN: Establishing SSL connection without server's identity verification is not recommended. According to MySQL 5.5.45+, 5.6.26+ and 5.7.6+ requirements SSL connection must be established by default if explicit option isn't set. For compliance with existing applications not using SSL the verifyServerCertificate property is set to 'false'. You need either to explicitly disable SSL by setting useSSL=false, or set useSSL=true and provide truststore for server certificate verification. [ main] DbProvisioner ERROR Exception when creating/dropping database with user 'admin' and jdbc url 'jdbc:mysql://mysqltst001:3306/?useUnicode=true&characterEncoding=UTF-8' java.sql.SQLException: Access denied for user 'admin'@'scmtst' (using password: YES) In order to check that admin user was indeed set properly, I install the MySql client on scmtst, and I can indeed create and drop database at will if logged in as admin   While investigating, I extracted the command-line actually called by scm_prepare_database.sh, and once i explicitly add the password (-p & -P) : it worked. The database got created, as well as the user & GRANTS   [root@scmtst ~]# /usr/java/latest//bin/java -cp /usr/share/java/mysql-connector-java.jar:/usr/share/java/oracle-connector-java.jar:/usr/share/cmf/schema/../lib/* com.cloudera.enterprise.dbutil.DbProvisioner --create -h mysqltst001.lab.ams:3306 -u admin -H scmtst.lab.ams -U scmuser -d scmdb -t mysql -p 'admin password' -P 'scm password' Wed Oct 11 15:51:52 CEST 2017 WARN: Establishing SSL connection without server's identity verification is not recommended. According to MySQL 5.5.45+, 5.6.26+ and 5.7.6+ requirements SSL connection must be established by default if explicit option isn't set. For compliance with existing applications not using SSL the verifyServerCertificate property is set to 'false'. You need either to explicitly disable SSL by setting useSSL=false, or set useSSL=true and provide truststore for server certificate verification. => Works However the script will fail later on on command com.cloudera.enterprise.dbutil.DbCommandExecutor. The file /etc/cloudera-scm-server/db.properties looks good to me, yet it does not connect   [ main] DbCommandExecutor INFO Unable to login using supplied username/password. [ main] DbCommandExecutor ERROR Error when connecting to database. It's lookng like the scripts  scm_prepare_database.sh is not properly processing the passwords when attempting the logging to the MySql server.   I coud not find any similar error, hence this post   Thanks Chris ... View more