h3x.no » password http://h3x.no Tor Henning Ueland`s thoughts about technology and other stuff Sun, 05 Feb 2012 20:24:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 How to reset MySQL root password http://h3x.no/2009/07/22/how-to-reset http://h3x.no/2009/07/22/how-to-reset#comments Wed, 22 Jul 2009 22:15:43 +0000 Tor Henning Ueland http://www.h3x.no/?p=94 Continue reading →]]> To reset the MySQL root password, do the following:

USE DATABASE mysql;
SET PASSWORD FOR root@localhost=PASSWORD(‘yournewpassword’);
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

And voila! You have changed your password.

PS: If you have a “problem” with beeing able to login to MySQL without using password (even when it is set in MySQL), try to edit or delete ~/my.cnf, since that holds information used to avoid the login promt.

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