Comments on: Recover MySQL root Password

By: Yuleisa

Yuleisa — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:52:41 +0000

– Quote – My daaabtse is about 1GB, so I set my innodb_buffer_pool_size to 2GB– End Quote –Is that your daaabtse memory size or your daaabtse file size? Thanks

By: Hiroshi

Hiroshi — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:38:10 +0000

Andrew,Swap out ‘**PASSWORD** for what ever psrawosd you want to use.**IP_ADDRESS** for your local machine IP ( EG 10.0.0.xx or 192.168.1.xx … )

By: RK

RK — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:15:30 +0000

Very easy and Straight forward

By: NNII

NNII — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 20:32:40 +0000

yes, it does in fact have how – /etc/init.d/mysqld stop

By: MiniVZ

MiniVZ — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 00:58:17 +0000

Thank you, I have reset my MySQL Password. Works on CentOS 6, though its mysqld instead of mysql for the start/stop of mysql.

By: Jaume

Jaume — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 17:21:32 +0000

Gràcies. feia temps que ho necessitava.

By: Francis

Francis — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 18:11:40 +0000

Thanks for this.. Worked like a charm on CentOS 5.

By: Ahmed Salem

Ahmed Salem — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 21:02:31 +0000

thanks a lot . it’s really descriptive :)

By: Ege

Ege — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 00:37:19 +0000

Couldn’t be neater, thank you!

By: Vivek Kumar

Vivek Kumar — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 09:57:09 +0000

Thanks! This worked well!

By: Keimpe de Jong

Keimpe de Jong — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 07:15:51 +0000

I encountered the stunning situation where there was no root user replace

update user set password=PASSWORD(“NEW-ROOT-PASSWORD”) where User=’root’;

with

insert into user(Host, User, Password, Select_priv, Insert_priv, Update_priv, Delete_priv, Create_priv, Drop_priv, Reload_priv, Shutdown_priv, Process_priv, File_priv, Grant_priv, References_priv, Index_priv, Alter_priv, Show_db_priv, Super_priv, Create_tmp_table_priv, Lock_tables_priv, Execute_priv, Repl_slave_priv, Repl_client_priv, Create_view_priv, Show_view_priv, Create_routine_priv, Alter_routine_priv, Create_user_priv, ssl_type, ssl_cipher, x509_issuer, x509_subject, max_questions, max_updates, max_connections, max_user_connections) values ('localhost', 'root', PASSWORD("my_password"), 'Y', 'Y', 'Y', 'Y', 'Y', 'Y', 'Y', 'Y',   'Y', 'Y', 'Y', 'Y', 'Y', 'Y', 'Y', 'Y', 'Y', 'Y',    'Y', 'Y', 'Y', 'Y', 'Y', 'Y', 'Y', 'Y', '', '', '', '', '0', '0', '0', '0');

By: Peter Fisher

Peter Fisher — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 13:47:08 +0000

Awesome Awesome Awesome. Very helpful indeed

By: Ian

Ian — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 13:22:15 +0000

Using – service mysqld stop/start worked for me.

By: anonymouse

anonymouse — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 08:47:00 +0000

it was really helpful..thanks

By: Robbo

Robbo — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 08:50:35 +0000

It really works! Thanks a lot!

By: travb

travb — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 23:44:46 +0000

You can recover MySQL database server password with following five EASY steps.

Why is it that EVERYTIME someone writes something is easy, it is not?

I have no idea how to shut off mysql. And there is no explanation here.

By: Lnux7802

Lnux7802 — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 05:06:01 +0000

yep,this site having good kb

By: ardent

ardent — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 07:15:17 +0000

Thanks guys, this greatly works.

By: Cuong

Cuong — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 14:37:46 +0000

Thanks! very useful.

By: Erez

Erez — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 15:54:58 +0000

Thanks A bunch! Simple to follow and woks!