How to reset MySQL Root Password in Linux Rumi, June 6, 2014 First, Let’s stop the mysql service, In Red Hat’s family (Red Hat Enterprise, Fedora, CentOS) the Mysql Daemon is called ‘mysqld‘, but in Debianlike Ubuntu based distributions and OpenSuse its called ‘mysql‘. I’ll be using the debian based naming sudo service mysql stop OR sudo /etc/init.d/mysql stop Now, we’ll start the server in safe mode and skip grant tables so that it wont ask for the password we had lost when we try to login sudo mysqld_safe –skip-grant-tables you should see something like this 111026 11:05:46 mysqld_safe Logging to syslog. 111026 11:05:46 mysqld_safe Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /var/lib/mysql Now open a new terminal window and run the mysql console using the main mysql database named ‘mysql‘ using the root user mysql –user=root mysql Then we’ll reset the password from the mysql’s users table, flush privieges, then exit the mysql console UPDATE user SET password=PASSWORD('new-password') WHERE user='root'; flush privileges; exit; Start again the mysql daemon sudo service mysql stop sudo service mysql start That’s All Configurations (Linux) MySQL