Mysql
Basically means that: db_users using it, will be "auth" by the system user credentias. You can see if your root user is set up like this by doing the following: $ sudo mysql - u root # I had to use "sudo" since is new installation mysql > USE mysql ; mysql > SELECT User , Host , plugin FROM mysql . user ; + ------------------+-----------------------+ | User | plugin | + ------------------+-----------------------+ | root | auth_socket | | mysql . sys | mysql_native_password | | debian-sys-maint | mysql_native_password | + ------------------+-----------------------+ As you can see in the query, the root user is using the auth_socket plugin There are 2 ways to solve this: You can set the root user to use the mysql_native_password plugin You can create a new db_user with you system_user (recommended) Option 1: $ sudo mysql - u root # I had to use