While developing a CMS we don’t have phpmyadmin, plesk or cpanel rather a simple cli. So to create a quick DB with a user who has all privileges to the DB and a password to the user just give these commands. this method will works for mariadb too.
$ mysql -u adminusername -p Enter password: Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or g. Your MySQL connection id is 13 Server version: 5.6.25-3 (Debian) Copyright (c) 2000, 2015, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners. Type 'help;' or 'h' for help. Type 'c' to clear the current input statement. mysql> CREATE DATABASE databasename; Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec) mysql> CREATE USER 'username'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password'; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec) mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON databasename.* TO "username"@"hostname"; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec) mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.01 sec) mysql> EXIT Bye $
For reseting root password
MariaDB [(none)]> use mysql; MariaDB [(none)]> update user set password=PASSWORD("NEWPASSWORD") where User='root';
Don’t forget to replace NEWPASSWORD with new password