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+<h3>Launch the MySQL console</h3>
+<p>from the Linux terminal console type</p>
+<blockquote>
+&gt;mysql -u root -p<br/>
+</blockquote>
+<p>or for a specific user</p>
+<blockquote>
+&gt;mysql -u <em> <strong>user_name</strong> </em> -p<br/>
+</blockquote>
 <h3>MySQL - change the default of default_authentication_plugin</h3>
     <p>since Mysql version 8.0 the default values has been changed from mysql_native_password to caching_sha2_password</p>
     <p>this needs to be reverted in the cnf file</p>