php artisan migrate ERROR

I am setting up a new macbook pro

php artisan migrate

returns the following ERROR

Illuminate\Database\QueryException

  SQLSTATE[HY000] [1698] Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (SQL: select * from information_schema.tables where table_schema =  and table_name = migrations and table_type = 'BASE TABLE')

strange thing is that this command doesn't work

mysql -uroot -p

instead I have to use

sudo mysql -uroot -p

or just

mysql

once I am logged into mysql I create a database named "pool"

my .env looks like this

DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
DB_PORT=3306
DB_DATABASE=pool
DB_USERNAME=root
DB_PASSWORD=

I found a lot of threads regarding this topic:

php artisan config:clear
php artisan cache:clear
php artisan config:cache

didn't help

I had maria DB installed

brew install maraiadb

and then i de installed it

now when I do

brew search mysql

I have mysql and [email protected] installed

these are my sql users

mysql> SELECT user, host FROM mysql.user;
+-------------+---------------------------+
| User        | Host                      |
+-------------+---------------------------+
|             | localhost                 |
| mariadb.sys | localhost                 |
| reniar      | localhost                 |
| root        | localhost                 |
|             | reniars-macbook-pro.local |
+-------------+---------------------------+
5 rows in set (0.00 sec)