Comments on: How to Reset MySQL or MariaDB Root Password in Linux

By: Khodeza Begum

Khodeza Begum — Thu, 18 Jun 2020 02:37:14 +0000

CGroup: /system.slice/mysqld.service
├─14887 /bin/sh /usr/bin/mysqld_safe –basedir=/usr
└─15058 /usr/sbin/mysqld –basedir=/usr –datadir=/var/lib/mysql –plugin-dir=/usr/lib64/mysql/plugin –log-error=/var/log/mysqld.log –pid-file=/var/run/…

I am getting this, and from a different terminal, it still says access denied for root. Please advice

By: saravanakumar

saravanakumar — Thu, 28 Feb 2019 05:20:35 +0000

Hi do you have any doc for how to reset root password for MySql8.0

By: arun

arun — Wed, 06 Feb 2019 09:42:57 +0000

Not useful. Practical approach is appreciated

By: Ravi Saive

Ravi Saive — Wed, 06 Feb 2019 06:53:24 +0000

In reply to arun. @Arun, To reset root password in MySQL 8 version, use the followinig instructions. 1. First, stop the MySQL server and then restart it with the --skip-grant-tables option as shown.

# systemctl stop mariadb
# systemctl set-environment MYSQLD_OPTS="--skip-grant-tables"
# systemctl start mariadb

2. In the mysql client shell, tell the server to reload the grant tables so that account-management statements work.

mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

3. Then change the 'root'@'localhost' account password. Make sure to replace the password with the password that you want to use.

mysql> ALTER USER 'root'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'MyNewPass';

4. Now stop the server, unset (the --skip-grant-tables) and restart the service.

# systemctl stop mariadb
# systemctl unset-environment MYSQLD_OPTS
# systemctl start mariadb

By: Ravi Saive

Ravi Saive — Wed, 06 Feb 2019 06:39:08 +0000

In reply to arun.

@Arun,

I need a time to test it, take screenshots and document it. Give me a day or two to publish the article on same..