Unable to login to MySQL instance hosted on AWS ec2

Question

I am trying to set up a mysql database on an aws ec2 instance (SUSE 32-bit with mysql pre-installed). However, I can't log in to mysql as root user:

mysql -u root
Access denied

without a password, so is there a way of getting one? I believe that root user is blocked and hence should login with ec2-user . However, when I do

mysql -u ec2-user

the user does not have the priviledges to create a database.

I'm a not very familiar with linux, so if I'm simply doing this completely wrong, then do say.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

The fact that this server is on EC2 is irrelevant. SUSE and MySQL do not know this. Amazon cannot block anything, you have root access to the server. You recover/change the root password the same as any server, with mysqladmin, or by starting mysqld with --skip-grant-tables while you make the change.

Answer 2

mysql -u root -p

然后按Enter。

Answer 3

I know, this isn't a direct answer to your question, but I would recommend using the AWS Relational Database Service. Amazon will host a MySQL database for you and take care of all the setup, maintenance, scaling, backup, etc.

http://aws.amazon.com/rds/