MYSQL cygwin database connection requests root password

rappard@dds.nl rappard@dds.nl
Thu Aug 17 04:55:55 GMT 2023


> Hi everyone I saw that in order to connect MYSQL database on cygwin, this statement must be executed:
> mysql -u root -p -h 127.0.0.1
> However, as far as I know, there's no root user on cygwin.
> How can I get that requested password?

Isn't "root" a MySQL username? If I recall correctly its default
password is either empty or "root".


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