Reset MySQL Root Password

29 Oct Posted by admin in mysql

First of all you will need to ensure that your database is stopped:

/etc/init.d/mysql stop

Now you should start up the databa using the mysqld_safe command:

  1. /usr/bin/mysqld_safe --skip-grant-tables &
  2. [1] 6702
  3. Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /var/lib/mysql
  4. mysqld_safe[6763]: started

Now that the server is running with the --skip-grant-tables flag you can connect to it without a password and complete the job:

  1. mysql --user=root mysql
  2. Enter password:

  1. mysql> update user set Password=PASSWORD('newPasswordHere') WHERE User='root';
  2. Query OK, 2 rows affected (0.04 sec)
  3. Rows matched: 2  Changed: 2  Warnings: 0
  4.  
  5. mysql> flush privileges;
  6. Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.02 sec)
  7.  
  8. mysql> exit
  9. Bye

Now that you've done that you just need to stop the server, so that you can go back to running a secure MySQL server with password restrictions in place.

This will now allow you to start the server:

  1. /etc/init.d/mysql start
  2. Starting MySQL database server: mysqld.
  3. Checking for corrupt, not cleanly closed and upgrade needing tables..

Thats it! Now you should verify this by connecting with your new password.

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