Wordpress Reset Blog User Password from MySQL Using Linux Bash and not PHPMyadmin
The reason we use the command below is because we need the md5sum value hash of the password. This means that we cannot use the md5sum
Change "yournewpass" to the pass you want to set
echo -n "yournewpass" | md5sum
Then you get the md5sum hash of whatever you entered eg. in this case "yournewpass"
5a9351ed00c7d484486c571e7a78c913 ........
MariaDB / MySQL Reset Root Forgotten Password on Centos 7
mysql reset root password.
Oops I can't remember my MySQL root password!
[root@centos7test etc]# mysql -u root -p
Enter password:
ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES)
First we need to stop mariadb:
systemctl stop mariadb
Now we need to restart it with skip-grant-tables whic........
MySQL Recover/Reset Lost/Forgotten root Password
One note is to secure MySQL, I don't know for sure but I believe you could login to MySQL remotely with no password during this operation (I'm not sure, maybe it doesn't accept blank passwords but I firewall MySQL port anyway and recommend you do the same).
First edit /etc/my.cf
Under the [mysqld] field add the following line somewhere:
skip-grant-tables
Now restart mysql: service mysql restart or on Debian sty........