最近在centos 7上，通过yum安装了mysql，安装成功后，使用root登录，出现了如下报错：

error 1045 (28000): access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: no)

mysql版本为：ver 14.14 distrib 5.7.10, for linux(x86_64) using editline wrapper

然而实际上并没有进行过root密码设置(不知道是不是安装过程有被忽略的地方？)。

对此就各种寻找答案，大致有下面一些情况：

有说root的随机密码位于/root/.mysql_secret中，但是我根本没有/root/.mysql_secret文件。有文章表示

> error 1045 (28000): access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using

> password: no) :表示没有生成root的临时密码

>

> error 1045 (28000): access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using

> password: yes) :表示生成了root的临时密码。

有些资料说root的默认密码为空，经过确认那是以前的老版本，mysql 5.6及以后版本出处于安全考虑，root密码已经不为空了。

最终找到对我来说有用的解决方案。

产生原因：

now that the password mysql had generated is expired, the problem is reduced to getting this password to work again (1) or generate a new one (2). this can be accomplished by running mysql with the skip-grant-tables option which would make it ignore the access rights:

解决方法：

stop your mysql server.

add skip-grant-tables at the end of the [mysqld] section of my.cnf file and save it.

start mysql server.

in terminal, typemysql -u root -pto get into mysql command prompt.

in the command prompt, typeuse mysql;to get into the mysql database where it keeps database users.

type

update user set password_expired = 'n' where user = 'root';

to let mysql know the password is not expired (1) or

update user set authentication_string = password('yournewpassword'), password_expired = 'n' where user = 'root';

发布出来，供大家参考。