mysqli_real_connect() (HY0001698) Access denied for user ‘root’@’localhost’
Turns out you can’t use the root user in 5.7 anymore without becoming a sudoer. That means you can’t just run mysql -u root anymore and have to do sudo mysql -u root instead. That also means that it will no longer work if you’re using the root user in a GUI (or supposedly any non-command line application). To make it work you’ll …
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