ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user ‘root’@’localhost’ (using password: YES)

Note: For MySQL 5.7+ please see answer from @Lahiru to this question. That contains more current information.

For MySQL < 5.7:

The default root password is blank (i.e. empty string) not root. So you can just login as:

mysql -u root

You should obviously change your root password after installation

mysqladmin -u root password [newpassword]

In most cases you should also set up individual user accounts before working extensively with the DB as well.

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