I forgot the password I changed for the root user of MySQL. I'm logged in as root user and when I do
# /opt/lampp/lampp security
it gives result as
XAMPP: Quick security check...
XAMPP: Your XAMPP pages are secured by a password.
XAMPP: Do you want to change the password anyway? [no] n
XAMPP: MySQL has a root passwort set. Fine! :)
XAMPP: The FTP password for user 'nobody' is still set to 'lampp'.
XAMPP: Do you want to change the password? [yes] n
XAMPP: Done.
How do I reset the password. I checked to see, but couldn't find the password in any file (including my.cnf
).
Best Answer
The
skip-grant-tables
solution is not a recommended one, for a couple of reasons:A solution which requires taking the database down just once is as follows:
/tmp/init.sql
Within this file, write:
SET PASSWORD FOR root@localhost = PASSWORD('the_new_password');
Add the following to your MySQL config file (on Ubuntu this is on
/etc/mysql/my.cnf
), under the[mysqld]
section:init-file=/tmp/init.sql
Restart MySQL once. The init file is read and executed upon startup. The password is reset.
init-file=/tmp/init.sql
entry frommy.cnf
(do not forget this). Even as the server is up and running./tmp/init.sql
file.There are even more solutions! Please refer to a past blog post of mine. Make sure to check out comment #4 by strcmp