Comments on: MySQL: Reset Lost Root Password

By: sridhar

sridhar — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 20:10:47 +0000

i’m using window OS, and i’m really stuked so,
could you please provide steps for windows to solve the problem.

thanks in advance…

By: Markus

Markus — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 22:35:36 +0000

Thanks a lot. it works, yippie!

By: Toly

Toly — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:08:00 +0000

Don’t worry @H4king, I have no intentions to look up people IPs + “42″ would not be the password people would use.

However, thanks for the clever concern

By: H4king

H4king — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 23:08:18 +0000

WHEN YOU POST …the admins on this web see your IP so they login on your mysql server whit password 42 …suckers

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 08:23:54 +0000

Thanks, I assumed reinstalling would reset root password, but it didn’t.

Thanks to your guide I was able to get going again!

By: margaret

margaret — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 11:21:52 +0000

This is very helpful,however am using Ubuntu and the query
UPDATE user SET password=PASSWORD(“value=42″) WHERE user=”root”;
did not work well….i hard to omit the word value and use it like:
UPDATE user SET password=PASSWORD(“42″) WHERE user=”root”;

Worked so smoothly! Thanks.

By: Shawn S

Shawn S — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 08:54:27 +0000

Thank you very much for this. I somehow jacked up my db a few months ago and couldn’t get into it. I know nothing about databases, so I was pretty frustrated with MySql and phpMyAdmin until I came across a comment on HowtoForge directing me here. This definitely gets bookmarked.

By: sreejith

sreejith — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 07:22:33 +0000

thanks …

By: Tarun Das

Tarun Das — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:52:33 +0000

Everything else I found in internet was bogus, even official website of MySQL (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/resetting-permissions.html) did not help.
IT’s SIMPLE and IT WORKS.
Thank you very much

By: Maik

Maik — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:41:30 +0000

It works. Thanks .