Hello Friends,

Recently, I got a request for resetting the MySQL root password.

One of my colleges tried many solutions from different blog and website, but he failed and the question came to me.

As I am always ready for new research and problem solving, so I started my work to reset the MySQL root password.

On the internet, you can find many similar solutions and I have also tired from these solutions, but I was failed to reset root/admin password.

After some exercise, I got success on this.

Below are the final steps:

Step 1:
Stop MySQL Service.

sudo stop mysql

Step 2:
Kill all running mysqld.

sudo killall -9 mysqld

Step 3:
Starting mysqld in Safe mode.

sudo mysqld_safe --skip-grant-tables --skip-networking &

Step 4:
Start mysql client

mysql -u root

Step 5:
After successful login, please execute this command to change any password.
Here you can visit more about MySQL Flush Command:

FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

Step 6:
You can update mysql root password .

UPDATE mysql.user SET Password=PASSWORD('newpwd') WHERE User='root';

Step 7:
Please execute this command.

FLUSH PRIVILEGES;