Comments on: MySQL Reset Root Password

By: Camilo

Camilo — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 23:40:02 +0000

I use Fedora 12 and It doesn’t work for me.

By: rizky

rizky — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 22:50:02 +0000

whoa that’s cool dude

By: Antony Dick M.

Antony Dick M. — Fri, 22 May 2009 07:21:58 +0000

When there is a crash in connecting the MySQL Database do the following procedures

To Stop:
etc/init.d/mysql stop

To Start:
etc/init.d/mysql start

To Restart:
etc/init.d/mysql restart

To Reset The Password:
/etc/init.d/mysql reset-password

To Make Your Database To Get Connected When You Are In A Network:
gedit /etc/mysql/my.cnf
//search for bind address and then
change bind address 0.0.0.0

By: V.Balaviswanathan

V.Balaviswanathan — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:52:23 +0000

Thanks a lot Vivek for the tip that you have provided :)

By: Vivek Gite

Vivek Gite — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:44:06 +0000

@V.Balaviswanathan,

MySQL has root user too. Do not confuse it with system root user (to become root user Ubuntu enter sudo -s).

@ Frank,
/etc/init.d/mysql or /etc/init.d/mysqld depends upon your distro.

By: V.Balaviswanathan

V.Balaviswanathan — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 09:30:40 +0000

Thanks a lot for the tips that you have provided and I would like to know the same for debian and Ubuntu systems as in Ubuntu there is no root login as such right?

By: Frank Wang

Frank Wang — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:07:37 +0000

Thanks, very nice instruction. A little typo at the end:
“# /etc/init.d/mysql start” should be “# /etc/init.d/mysqld start”

By: GaQuay

GaQuay — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 00:00:34 +0000

for gui, you can use webmin, it so easy for change password mysql :)

By: micman

micman — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 14:59:54 +0000

thanks :)

By: dardo

dardo — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 20:15:25 +0000

Excuse me for my bad English, I usually read it all time but rather speak or write it.

Thanks for share this method.

I install mySQL on my NSLU2 this weekend and with the Debian default install there are no root user, but the debconf ask it’s password twice at install time.

I use the skip-grant-tables method, but i was thinking on more secure ways to do it because withe the skip-grant-tables any user potentially can take the control of your databases.

By: Vivek Gite

Vivek Gite — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 17:04:35 +0000

mysqld –skip-grant-tables method is considered as insecure and in some case it may corrupt the data.

HTH

By: Mihai Secasiu

Mihai Secasiu — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:58:56 +0000

Or you could simply stop mysql then start it without privilege checking like this:
mysqld –skip-grant-tables
connect to it as root, run that update query, then kill the server and start it normally

By: Raheem

Raheem — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:35:36 +0000

Thank you ! Nice piece of info.
In fact, my colleague did the most stupid thing of his life yesterday by deleting all the users in the mysql table :(
I did get back everything by simply altering the commands in the above given example to insert a user called root, then granting permission to all databases, reset its password etc.

By: yoander (sedlav)

yoander (sedlav) — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 13:39:38 +0000

In RHEL / Fedora / CentOS Linux yun can type also service mysqld stop