mysqlfailover command gives Error 1045: Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO)

Question

I am trying to run mysqlfailover using workbench console:

 mysqlfailover --master=root@localhost:3306 --discover-slaves-login='root' --log=log.txt

and I am getting the error :

ERROR: Cannot connect to the master server.
Error 1045: Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO)

I tried to google but found nothing. Mysql version is 5.6.17.

Answer 1

This error is simply saying that user root@localhost is not allowed to execute this command with no password. If you have the password set for root@user modify you command as " mysqlfailover --master=root:YOURMYSQLPASSWORDFORROOT@localhost:3306 --discover-slaves-login='root' --log=log.txt"

This should solve the problem.