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

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

By: Andrey

Andrey — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 09:13:03 +0000

This looks like the right way to do that.

Some of my clients insist on having Internet access to their MySql databases. For such cases, I would add steps to disconnect and reconnect network or just add –skip-networking to the command line.

By: S.RAGHU

S.RAGHU — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 09:11:13 +0000

Ramesh , thank you for sharing this information. We were previously following lot of roundabout methods.