Comments on: How To Change MySQL Root Password

By: prasad

prasad — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 10:24:09 +0000

HI ,
I FORGOT OLD PASSWORD AND NEED TO SET NEW ONE PLS. HELP

By: muhammed sekertekin

muhammed sekertekin — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 03:30:25 +0000

Wow your the best thank very nice and informative article this made my day…. muhammed sekertekin

By: existing

existing — Tue, 24 May 2011 23:47:09 +0000

When I run this query:
“mysql> UPDATE user SET password=PASSWORD(‘newpassword’) WHERE user=’root’;”

I get this result:

“Query OK, 0 row affected (0.00 sec)
Rows matched: 0 Changed: 0 Warnings: 0″

It recognizes and updates if I target a different user, but not with “root”. Any ideas what is going on?

By: Centralised Syslog Daemon « My little sandbox

Centralised Syslog Daemon « My little sandbox — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 16:31:06 +0000

[...] 'syslog'@'localhost' FLUSH PRIVILEGES; *** You should change root password after installing mySQL. See this for more details. 5. Edit /etc/rsyslog.conf by adding these below on the top of this file. $ModLoad ommysql [...]

By: Ramesh Natarajan

Ramesh Natarajan — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 06:31:11 +0000

@Andrey,

Thanks for the suggestion on what to do if someone do not know the current password. There is a better way to rest the forgotten root password on MySQL, which will be posted in the next article this Wed.

By: Andrey

Andrey — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:04:17 +0000

What if you do not know the current password? Create a fresh MySql installation. Create some database. Copy everything from the mysql directory of the problem database to the directory of the new database. Change everything as needed and copy back to the mysql directory. And do not forget to stop the servers before copying files.

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Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:32:16 +0000

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