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GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON mediawiki.* TO 'example_user'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'secretsecretpass';

== Set Password for Root user ==The following command issues a new password for the root user while at the same time dictating which authentication plugin <ref>https://mariadb.com/kb/en/library/authentication-plugin-pam/</ref> to use.<source lang="sql">ALTER USER 'root'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED WITH mysql_native_password BY 'secretpass';</source>  Note: Since the introduction of [https://mariadb.com/kb/en/library/development-pluggable-authentication/ Pluggable Authentication] in MySQL 5.7 and also MariaDB since 5.2, there is an a "[https://mariadb.com/kb/en/library/authentication-plugin-unix-socket/ unix_socket]" plugin which authenticates the current user by their login to the OS, and thus NOT a password. If you have a database with no user trouble setting the password, then youit'll s probably want because you need to change it back to regular password also specify the '''mysql_native_password''' auth at the same time <ref>https://www.percona.com/blog/2016/03/16/change-user-password-in-mysql-5-7-with-plugin-auth_socket/</ref>