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How To Reset the MySQL Password : Ubuntu 7.10

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I found myself toying with one of my test servers the other nite and realized that I didn’t know what the root password was for my MySQL database.  After a quick bit of Google searching I found a very easy solution.  Granted this may be limited to recent releases of Ubuntu (tested on Ubuntu 7.10), but other solutions did not work for me.

Resetting the Password

To reset the MySQL root password on Ubuntu we can simply reconfigure the installed package, which prompts for the root user password setting at installation.

sudo dpkg-reconfigure mysql-server-5.0

This should display a dialog box asking for a new root user password.  Enter a new password and it’s reset.  Can’t be much simpler than that.

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5 Responses to “How To Reset the MySQL Password : Ubuntu 7.10”

  1. dave on January 8th, 2008 2:10 pm

    without reconfiguring check this simple command to change mysql root password
    http://www.ubuntugeek.com/reset-the-root-password-on-mysql.html

  2. Justin on January 9th, 2008 4:38 pm

    Or just use
    # mysqladmin password NEWPASSWORD

    As root

  3. dns on January 10th, 2008 3:14 am

    from the mysql docs
    http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/resetting-permissions.html
    m
    ysqld_safe –skip-grant-tables -u root &

  4. joelmedia on February 19th, 2008 10:21 am

    Looks like the ‘reset-password’ function that a lot of other sites mention for this problem has been removed from the init.d script in ubuntu 7.10.

    Thanks, this is just what I needed. I can stop cutting myself now. :-)

  5. gnuskool on March 3rd, 2008 1:30 pm

    This works great, thumbs up geezer. I read heaps of different methods etc infinitum, yours worked straight away

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