Comments on: Reset the root password on MySQL

By: cloud

cloud — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 22:33:56 +0000

thanks! this solution works!

By: gauraw

gauraw — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 06:57:27 +0000

You can reset the password as follows (At least it worked for me):
sudo /etc/init.d/mysql stop
sudo mysqld --skip-grant-tables &
mysql -u root mysql
UPDATE user SET Password=PASSWORD(‘NEWPASSWORD’) WHERE User=’root’; FLUSH PRIVILEGES; exit;

By: piar

piar — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 02:28:42 +0000

i have change password in mysql but unfortunately now i am unable to log in in mysql.please help me as soon as possible.

By: uzair

uzair — Thu, 28 May 2009 18:33:13 +0000

nevermind, a bit of google-ing solved the issue.
For those of you also running into the same problem here’s what you can do:

Your debian-sys-maint user’s info is located in:
/etc/mysql/debian.cnf

copy the password that is there and do the same procedure as above, but this time make sure you change the password only for ‘debian-sys-maint’ using the command mdmbkr suggested:
mysqld_safe --skip-grant-tables
mysql --user=root mysql
update user set Password=PASSWORD(”) WHERE User=’debian-sys-maint’;
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

By: uzair

uzair — Thu, 28 May 2009 18:18:36 +0000

Please ignore this. Forgot to check the little checkbox to notify me of any replies

By: uzair

uzair — Thu, 28 May 2009 18:13:43 +0000

@Admin uhhh, that little command gave me the following error when I started it the server up again:
uzair@ubuntu:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/mysql restart
* Stopping MySQL database server mysqld [ OK ]
* Starting MySQL database server mysqld [ OK ]
* Checking for corrupt, not cleanly closed and upgrade needing tables.
/usr/bin/mysqladmin: connect to server at ‘localhost’ failed
error: ‘Access denied for user ‘debian-sys-maint’@'localhost’ (using password: YES)’
uzair@ubuntu:~$ ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user ‘debian-sys-maint’@'localhost’ (using password: YES)

Is there anyway to reverse the effects if mdmbkr is correct about it changing all the passwords.
What’s the default debian-sys-maint account’s password?

By: cspr

cspr — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 07:54:10 +0000

@mdmbkr lol!;) just tell me how to run that query without knowing your password to connect to the server!

By: mdmbkr

mdmbkr — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:52:29 +0000

The above advice will change ALL of the mysql users’ passwords! You only want to change the password for the user named ‘root’, so add that constraint:

update user set Password=PASSWORD(’new-password’) WHERE User=’root’;

By: admin

admin — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 05:14:34 +0000

try the following procedure

Log in as root and stop the mysql daemon. Now lets start up the mysql daemon and skip the grant tables which store the passwords.

mysqld_safe --skip-grant-tables

You should see mysqld start up successfully. If not, well you have bigger issues. Now you should be able to connect to mysql without a password.

mysql --user=root mysql

update user set Password=PASSWORD(‘new-password’);
flush privileges;
exit;

Now kill your running mysqld, then restart it normally. You should be good to go. Try not to forget your password again.

By: buck

buck — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 22:38:29 +0000

Same here… did you ever find an answer to why the ‘reset-password’ does not work?

By: ehcomunicacion

ehcomunicacion — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 17:33:21 +0000