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Mysql password expired. Can't connect

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I just wiped my Mac and did a fresh install of El Capitan. I'm struggling to connect to Mysql now. Having gone through a web server setup process, I've created a simple PHP test file:

<?php
  $conn = new mysqli("127.0.0.1", "root", "xxxxxxxx");
  if ($conn->connect_error) echo "Connection failed: " . $conn->connect_error; 
  else echo "Connected successfully";
  phpinfo();
?>

When I run it, I get this error:

Warning: mysqli::mysqli(): (HY000/1862): Your password has expired. To log in you must change it using a client that supports expired passwords. in /Users/rich/Documents/DESIGN/test/index.php on line 3
Connection failed: Your password has expired. To log in you must change it using a client that supports expired passwords.

I've never seen that response from a connection before. How do I fix it if I can't connect?

EDIT

In terminal I entered the command:

mysql -u root -p

This asked me for my password (current one) which I put in. I now have access to mysql commands but anything I try results in this error:

ERROR 1820 (HY000): You must reset your password using ALTER USER statement before executing this statement.

How do I reset the password using ALTER USER?

Answers

So I finally found the solution myself.

Firstly I went into terminal and typed:

mysql -u root -p

This asked for my current password which I typed in and it gave me access to provide more mysql commands. Anything I tried from here gave this error:

ERROR 1820 (HY000): You must reset your password using ALTER USER statement before executing this statement.

This is confusing because I couldn't actually see a way of resetting the password using ALTER USER statement, but I did find another simple solution:

SET PASSWORD = PASSWORD('xxxxxxxx');

Monday, November 14, 2022

nayyir777-a2865f9dbb2b

Open a good text editor (I'd recommend TextMate, but the free TextWrangler or vi or nano will do too), and open:

/etc/apache2/httpd.conf

Find the line:

"#LoadModule php5_module        libexec/apache2/libphp5.so"

And uncomment it (remove the #).

Download and install the latest MySQL version from mysql.com. Choose the x86_64 version for Intel (unless your Intel Mac is the original Macbook Pro or Macbook, which are not 64 bit chips. In those cases, use the 32 bit x86 version).

Install all the MySQL components. Using the pref pane, start MySQL.

In the Sharing System Pref, turn on (or if it was already on, turn off/on) Web Sharing.

You should now have Apache/PHP/MySQL running.

In 10.4 and 10.5 it was necessary to modify the php.ini file to point to the correct location of mysql.sock. There are reports that this is fixed in 10.6, but that doesn't appear to be the case for all of us, given some of the comments below.

Monday, December 12, 2022

jeremye

From your edit, the issue appears to be a scoping one.

You're attempting to make a connection inside a function where the $username, $password and $database variables are defined outside that function.

I suggest you read the Variable Scope section of the manual and turn up your error reporting as @netcoder suggests in the question comments.

Sunday, December 4, 2022

alexpods

<?php
$sql = new mysqli('127.0.0.1','root','Qwert12345','plot_io_db');
//echo $sql->query('Select * From players');
?>

It will work. Just remove port from localhost (127.0.0.1)

Tuesday, August 30, 2022

noel_yap

Try this:

mysql -u root -h 127.0.0.1 -p
Enter password: (enter the random password here)

Ref:https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/data-directory-initialization-mysqld.html

Following this, you may reset your password using ALTER USER 'root'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'new-password';

Thursday, November 17, 2022

aveschini

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