How to reset MySQL Root Password in Linux

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

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

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