Comments on: Forgot MySQL Root Password – How To Reset It?

By: Ben

Ben — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 09:50:09 +0000

Fantastic! Thank-you.
Only thing extra I had to do was before step 5,
mysql> USE mysql;
Very useful article.

By: jasonpsage

jasonpsage — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 16:01:07 +0000

NOTE: I had to do something weird but it worked. I have multiple hosts per user – so only users from certain origins can connect.

When I ran the update command, as suggested above, even after switching to “use mysql” database.. it found matches but didn’t update the password. “5 matches, 0 Rows Effected” (????? Geesh (B^)>

The ultimate fix for me – risky – but – worked – was – networking was on, I connected remotely with MySQL Administrator (while MySQL running with GRANT options off) (risky but…) I connected with MySQL Administrator, changed the password on the “root@localhost” entry in my user/host entry and applied the password that way.

I then logged out, shut down MySQL, reset the /etc/rc.d/init.d/mysqld file back how it was (no skip grant option) – and Whella! Success!! Just thought I’d share the bit with you folks.

–Jason P Sage – (B^)>

By: jasonpsage

jasonpsage — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 14:37:44 +0000

Going through a “server” inoculation/sterilization due to the bad guys getting lucky on a Joomla vulnerability… (not finished yet but….) I went through a period of fast password changes and the like – but out did myself on mysql… SAFELY locked down and secured!…. um… from me too! (B^)>

This article gave me a no non-sense responsible way for a sys admin to clean house, and for that: This article is most appreciated by me.

–Jason P Sage

By: Estelita

Estelita — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:07:31 +0000

My server says: ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user ‘root’@'localhost’ (using password: YES) I’m really stuck.

By: sv

sv — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 15:32:03 +0000

if you find difficult to make changes with conf file then. follow the steps as follows.

1) /etc/init.d/mysql stop
2) mysqld_safe –skip-grant-tables &
3) Then follow the above steps from step – 3

By: senthil

senthil — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 05:27:09 +0000

its very useful info…

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Fri, 31 Jul 2009 11:07:35 +0000

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By: Ramesh Natarajan

Ramesh Natarajan — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 06:09:06 +0000

@Raghu,

Yeah. There are lot of ways to reset mysql root password. I even know a sysadmin, who copied the data files to another mysql instance and tried to reset the root password in that instance by doing lot of juggling.

Using -skip-grants is probably the easiest and most safe method to reset the mysql root password. I’m happy to hear that you are planning to use this method from now-on-wards.

@Taiwan Fan, @Ndr,

Thanks for your comments. I’m very glad that you found this article helpful.

@Andrey,

Thanks for suggesting –skip-networking option. Yeah. I can definitely see a good use of skip-networking in the particular scenario you’ve suggested.

By: ndr

ndr — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 02:08:08 +0000

very nice info…hopely can practice someday..thanks

By: Taiwan Fan

Taiwan Fan — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:14:12 +0000

Useful info.

thanks