ERROR 1820 (HY000): You must reset your password using ALTER USER statement before executing this statement.

then you have to reset the root password as password policy level in mysql. so simply use the below command to set the password for root in mysql.

ALTER USER ‘root’@’localhost’ IDENTIFIED BY ‘Root@1234’;then it will show like “Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)”

now try again the step to create user as per the password policy.

If you don’t want password policy and you want to create user password with some random simple password then follow the step below.

login mysql as root

mysql -u root -p

then check the policy status with below command

SHOW VARIABLES LIKE ‘validate_paswword%’;

it will show like below image.

you can see the validate_password_policy in MEDIUM.

now you have to change to LOW. So you can proceed in your own way. Now set the paoly rule in low with following command.

SET GLOBAL validat_password_policy=LOW;

now check the password policy like above. You will get like below image.

mysql> SET GLOBAL validate_password_length = 4;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.01 sec)

mysql> SHOW VARIABLES LIKE ‘validate_password%’;
+————————————–+——–+
| Variable_name | Value |
+————————————–+——–+
| validate_password_dictionary_file | |
| validate_password_length | 4 |
| validate_password_mixed_case_count | 1 |
| validate_password_number_count | 1 |
| validate_password_policy | MEDIUM |
| validate_password_special_char_count | 1 |
+————————————–+——–+
6 rows in set (0.00 sec)

mysql> SET GLOBAL validate_password_policy = LOW;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.01 sec)

SHOW VARIABLES LIKE 'performance_schema';

[mysqld]
performance_schema=ON