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Did you lose your MariaDB root password? (GNU/Linux)

Don’t even think to drastical solutions. If you can log into GNU/Linux as root, you can always recover MariaDB root password.

Did you never know the password?

Maybe you installed MariaDB, or you bought a new server, but you don’t know the root password. Don’t panic! It’s ok!

Probably there is no password. Well, this is false; MariaDB asks for a password, and you won’t be able to logon if the password is incorrect; but the password is an empty string. On the CLI, just press enter to access.

Change it: it is insecure. If I had to break into a MariaDB/MySQL installation as root, I would first try an empty password. Don’t let me break into your system so easily!

Ok, you lost the password

Ok, you lost it. This is not the simplest case, but… it’s simple!

1) Log into your GNU/Linux system as the user used by MySQL (usually ‘mysql’) or root.

2) Restart MariaDB with the grant tables disabled:
mysqld_safe --skip-grant-tables --skip-networking

mysqld_safe will shut down mysqld for you.
With --skip-grant-tables, no password is needed to logon.
This is unsafe, so until the password is reset MariaDB should not accept network connections (--skip-networking).

3) Logon with no password:
mysql -u root

4) Set your new password.

Exec these 2 SQL statements and exit the client:

-- change pwd
UPDATE `mysql`.`user`
	SET `Password` = PASSWORD('new_password')
	WHERE `User` = 'root';
-- tell the server to read the grant tables
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
\quit

(replace ‘new_password’ with the new password)

5) Stop mysqld_safe and restart mysqld:

mysqladmin shutdown
/etc/init.d/mysql start

(depending from your system, you may need to replace ‘/etc/init.d‘ with the correct MySQL path)

6) Logoff from you system (because you are now root or someone very powerful).


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