My local environment is:

- fresh Ubuntu 16.04
- with PHP 7
- with installed MySQL 5.7


        sudo apt-get install mysql-common mysql-server


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When I tried to login to MySQL (via CLI):

    mysql -u root -p


I came across an cyclic issue with 3 steps.



## 1) First was some socket issue

    ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can&#39;t connect to local MySQL server through socket &#39;/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock&#39;

**Solution: restarting PC.**

Which led to another error:



## 2) With access denied

    ERROR 1698 (28000): Access denied for user &#39;root&#39;@&#39;localhost&#39;.

Possible issue? Wrong password for &quot;root&quot; user!

**Solution: [reset root password with this tutorial](https://support.rackspace.com/how-to/mysql-resetting-a-lost-mysql-root-password/).**

With correct password and working socket, there comes last error.


## 3) Incorrect auth plugin

    mysql &quot;ERROR 1524 (HY000): Plugin &#39;unix_socket&#39; is not loaded&quot;


Here I stopped or somehow got to 1) again.

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