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Resetting a forgotten MySQL root password

admin — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 06:47:18 +0000

Stop mysqld and restart it with the --skip-grant-tables option.

to start use # /usr/bin/mysqld_safe --skip-grant-tables

Connect to the mysqld server with this command:(you may have to use new shell / window for this)
```
shell> mysql
```

Issue the following statements in the mysql client. Replace the password with the password that you want to use.

mysql> UPDATE mysql.user SET Password=PASSWORD('MyNewPass')
    ->                   WHERE User='root';
mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

stop mysqld server using service mysqld stop - make sure to stop and restart so that new service will be password protected
restart server with service mysqld start