You can recover MySQL database server password with following five easy steps.
Here are commands you need to type for each step (login as the root user):
- Stop mysql service
- Start to MySQL server w/o password:
- Connect to mysql server using mysql client:
- Setup new MySQL root user password
- Stop MySQL Server:
- Start MySQL server and test it
Step # 1 : Stop mysql service
# /etc/init.d/mysql stopOutput:
Stopping MySQL database server: mysqld.
Step # 2: Start to MySQL server w/o password:
# mysqld_safe --skip-grant-tables &Output:
[1] 1058 Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /var/lib/mysql mysqld_safe[6025]: started
Step # 3: Connect to mysql server using mysql client:
# mysql -u rootOutput:
Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g. Your MySQL connection id is 1 to server version: 4.1.15-Debian_1-log Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the buffer. mysql>
Step # 4: Setup new MySQL root user password
mysql> use mysql; mysql> update user set password=PASSWORD("NEW-ROOT-PASSWORD") where User='root'; mysql> flush privileges; mysql> quit
Step # 5: Stop MySQL Server:
# /etc/init.d/mysql stopOutput:
Stopping MySQL database server: mysqld STOPPING server from pid file /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid mysqld_safe[6186]: ended [1]+ Done mysqld_safe --skip-grant-tables
Step # 6: Start MySQL server and test it
# /etc/init.d/mysql start # mysql -u root -p
