I recently used MacPorts to upgrade from MySQL 5.5 to 5.6. I can use my database fine on my laptop. I tried to enable remote access to the database so I could edit the database using DB clients on other computers on my network, but after I logged in as root OK, it said access denied for root:
$ mysql -u root -p
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mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'username'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'password' WITH GRANT OPTION;
ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES)
I have tried the answer posted mysql how to fix Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' and it does not fix the problem
