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Hi James, thank you very much for your feedback and sorry for the late reply.
Indeed the default root connection does not need a password anymore and is done through socket, see https://mariadb.com/kb/en/library/security-of-mariadb-root-account/
If your problem is resolved, I invite you to close this question. If not I would be happy to help you resolving your issue.
Regards, Faustin