One way to connect to MySQL directly using proper MySQL username and password is: mysql --user=root --password=mypass Here, root is the MySQL username mypass is the MySQL user password This is useful if you have a blank password. For example, if you have MySQL user called root with an empty password, just use . mysql --user=root --password= More @Wikipedia
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