After the installation
After installing MariaDB, we can quickly verify that MariaDB is up and running by opening a terminal or command-line window and running the following command (on Windows, we can also open the mysql.exe client in the MariaDB folder):
mysql -u root -p
This command connects to MariaDB as the root user (-u root) and prompts for the password of that user (-p). When prompted, we will type in the password we configured during installation. If no password was set during installation, we simply remove the -p from the command. Until a password is set, we can connect without a password.
Tip
Not having a password for the root user is dangerous! If you did not set one during the installation, be sure to set one immediately after the install, ...
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