Brilang.com » mysql http://www.brilang.com Fri, 23 Jul 2010 01:16:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Reset the Root Password on MySQL http://www.brilang.com/2008/08/11/reset-the-root-password-on-mysql/ http://www.brilang.com/2008/08/11/reset-the-root-password-on-mysql/#comments Mon, 11 Aug 2008 22:17:03 +0000 admin http://www.brianlang.ca/?p=198 From time to time, you may run across a MySQL database where you don’t have the root password, but you require it to perform some task or another. In my case, I inherited a MySQL installation but no root password was available. The root password in the records did not work. Here’s a quick lesson in resetting the root password.

NOTE: This only works of you have command line access to your MySQL installation. This is a multi-step process. All steps must be completed to properly re-secure your database.

  1. Stop the MySQL process: sudo /etc/init.d/mysql stop
  2. Start the MySQL process in safe mode: sudo mysqld_safe --skip-grant-tables &
  3. Connect to the MySQL server (no password required): mysql -u root
  4. Tell MySQL to use the mysql database: USE mysql;
  5. Run this UPDATE query: UPDATE user SET password = PASSWORD("new_root_password") WHERE user='root';
  6. Flush the database Privileges: flush privileges;
  7. Exit MySQL: quit
  8. Stop the MySQL Server from running in safe mode: sudo /etc/init.d/mysql stop
  9. Restart MySQL in normal mode: sudo /etc/init.d/mysql start
  10. Try to log in with the new root password: mysql -u root -p

If the goal of the exercise is simply to dump the data, you can stop after completing step 3 and run your favorite mysqldump command. Then you can import it into a new MySQL instance.

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