MySQL 8 create new user with password not working

I am using MySQL for several years and the command for the creating the new user till the MySQL 5.x version is as follow:

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'username'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';

Recently I installed the MySQL 8. In that, this command is not working.

It is throwing following error while firing above command:

ERROR 1064 (42000): You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'IDENTIFIED BY 'password'' at line 1

Is there any change of syntax in MySQL 8? What is the correct syntax for creating new user command in MySQL 8?

Note: I tried this syntax in MySQL 5.x versions. It is working correctly in that.

Answer

Try this:

use mysql;
CREATE USER 'username'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
GRANT ALL ON *.* TO 'username'@'localhost';
flush privileges;