Can not access mysql in centos 7 after installation

Question

I downloaded mysql community repo, and installed mysql server using. yum install mysql yum install mysql-server

And started service using systemctl start mysqld systemctl status mysqld command states that server is running,

but can not login to mysql using mysql -u root, it says "ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO)"

Answer 1

If thats doesn't worked for you , try the same but provide -p you can try like this :

mysql -u root -p

and provide your password for root to enter into the mysql console.