How to Set Root Password in MemSQL on Linux

We can set root password new or update of all nodes in a MemSQL cluster, replacing with your desired password. Note that this command execute is an offline operation that will result in some cluster downtime.

# memsql-ops memsql-list -q | xargs -n 1 memsql-ops memsql-update-root-password --no-confirmation -p "MemSQL-Password"



2016-10-26 12:41:09: J4258a1 [INFO] Updating root password for MemSQL node 29D77C4D6F7A124BAA504FA719EE2A3D773334BE

2016-10-26 12:41:09: J4258a1 [INFO] Successfully updated root password for MemSQL node 29D77C4D6F7A124BAA504FA719EE2A3D773334BE

# mysql -u root -h 127.0.0.1 -P 3306 --prompt="memsql>" -p

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Your MySQL connection id is 13

Server version: 5.5.8 MemSQL source distribution (compatible; MySQL Enterprise & MySQL Commercial)



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memsql>quit

Bye

Use the below commands, In MemSQL  you should use the GRANT command:

grant all on *.* to 'root'@'localhost' identified by 'password' with grant option;

grant all on *.* to 'root'@'%' identified by 'password' with grant option;