How to find out the MySQL root password

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I cannot figure out my MySQL root password  how can I find this out  Is there any file where this password is stored    I am following this link but I do not have directadmin directory in local

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System      CentOS Linux 7 mysql  Ver 14 14 Distrib 5 7 25   Procedure      Open two shell sessions  logging in to one as the Linux root user and the other as a nonroot user with access to the mysql command  In your root session  stop the normal mysqld listener and start a listener which bypasses password authentication  note  this is a significant security risk as anyone with access to the mysql  command may access your databases without a password   You may want  to close active shell sessions and or disable shell access before  doing this      systemctl stop mysqld    usr sbin mysqld --skip-grant-tables -u mysql  amp  In your nonroot session  log in to mysql and set the mysql root password     mysql mysql gt  flush privileges  Query OK  0 rows affected  0 00 sec   mysql gt  SET PASSWORD FOR  root   localhost    PASSWORD  MyNewPass    Query OK  0 rows affected  1 warning  0 01 sec     mysql gt  quit  In your root session  kill the passwordless instance of mysqld and restore the normal mysqld listener to service     kill  1   systemctl start mysqld In your nonroot session  test the new root password you configured above     mysql -u root -p Enter password  Welcome to the MySQL monitor   Commands end with   or  g      mysql gt

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Follow these steps to reset password in Windows system  Stop Mysql service from task manager  Create a text file and paste the below statement    MySQL 5 7 5 and earlier  SET PASSWORD FOR  root   localhost    PASSWORD  yournewpassword       MySQL 5 7 6 and later  ALTER USER  root   localhost  IDENTIFIED BY  yournewpassword     Save as mysql-init txt and place it in  C  drive   Open command prompt and paste the following   C   gt  mysqld --init-file C   mysql-init txt

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You cannot find it  It is stored in a database  which you need the root password to access  and even if you did get access somehow  it is hashed with a one-way hash  You can reset it  http   dev mysql com doc refman 5 0 en resetting-permissions html

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thanks to  thusharaK I could reset the root password without knowing the old password   On ubuntu I did the following   sudo service mysql stop sudo mysqld safe --skip-grant-tables --skip-syslog --skip-networking   Then run mysql in a new terminal   mysql -u root   And run the following queries to change the password   UPDATE mysql user SET authentication string PASSWORD  password   WHERE User  root   FLUSH PRIVILEGES    In MySQL 5 7  the password field in mysql user table field was removed  now the field name is  authentication string    Quit the mysql safe mode and start mysql service by   mysqladmin shutdown sudo service mysql start

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I solved this a different way  this may be easier for some   I did it this way because I tried starting in safe mode but cannot connect with the error  ERROR 2002  HY000   Can t connect to local MySQL server through socket   var run mysqld mysqld sock   2   What I did was to connect normally as root     sudo mysql -u root   Then I created a new super user   mysql gt  grant all privileges on     to  myuser      identified by  mypassword  with grant option  mysql gt  quit   Then log in as myuser    mysql -u myuser -p -h localhost   Trying to change the password gave me no errors but did nothing for me so I dropped and re-created the root user  mysql gt  drop user  root   localhost  mysql gt  mysql gt  grant all privileges on     to  root   localhost  identified by  mypassword  with grant option    The root user is now working with the new password

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You can t view the hashed password  the only thing you can do is reset it   Stop MySQL   sudo service mysql stop   or    sudo  usr local mysql support-files mysql server stop   Start it in safe mode     sudo mysqld safe --skip-grant-tables    above line is the whole command   This will be an ongoing command until the process is finished so open another shell terminal window  log in without a password     mysql -u root  mysql gt  UPDATE mysql user SET Password PASSWORD  password   WHERE User  root     MySQL 5 7 and over    mysql gt  use mysql   mysql gt  update user set authentication string password  password   where user  root      Start MySQL   sudo mysql start   or  sudo  usr local mysql support-files mysql server start   Your new password is  password

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The procedure changes depending the version of MySql  Follow the procedure exactly as described for your version    HINTS - Read before the instructions page for your version of MySql  In step 5  Instead of run CMD  create a shortcut on your desktop calling CDM exe  Then right-click on the shortcut and select  Execute as Administrator   In step 6  Skip the first proposed version of the command and execute the second one  the one with the --defaults-file parameter Once you execute the command  if everything is ok  the CMD window remains open and the command of step 6 continues executing  Simply close the window  click  x    and then force close MySQl from the Task Manager  Delete the file with the SQL commands  and start again MySQL  The password must be changed now    5 0 http   dev mysql com doc refman 5 0 en resetting-permissions html  5 1 http   dev mysql com doc refman 5 1 en resetting-permissions html      just change the version in the link  5 5  5 6  5 7

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MySQL 5 7 and above saves root in MySQL log file   Please try this   sudo grep  temporary password   var log mysqld log

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As addition to the other answers  in a cpanel installation  the mysql root password is stored in a file named  root  my cnf   and the cpanel service resets it back on change  so the other answers here won t help

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In your  hostname  err file inside the data folder MySQL works on  try to look for a string that starts with    A temporary password is generated for roor localhost    you can use  less  mysql data dir hostname err    then slash command  followed by the string you wish to look for     A temporary password    Then press n  to go to the Next result

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Go to phpMyAdmin   config inc php    cfg  Servers    i   password

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The default password which worked for me after immediate installation of mysql server is   mysql

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Answers provided here did not seem to work for me  the trick turned out to be      ALTER USER  root   localhost  IDENTIFIED WITH mysql native password BY  test     complete answer here  https   www percona com blog 2016 03 16 change-user-password-in-mysql-5-7-with-plugin-auth socket

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one thing that tripped me up on a new install of mySQL and wonder why I couldn t get the default password to work and why even the reset methods where not working   well turns out that on Ubuntu 18 the most recent version of mysql server does not use password auth at all for the root user by default  So this means it doesn t matter what you set it to  it won t let you use it  it s expecting you to login from a privileged socket  so   mysql -u root -p   will not work at all  even if you are using the correct password    it will deny access no matter what you put in   Instead you need to use  sudo mysql   that will work with out any password  then once you in you need type in   ALTER USER  root   localhost  IDENTIFIED WITH mysql native password BY  Password you want to use     then log out and now the bloody thing will finally accept your password

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I was stuck with this problem for a couple of minutes and the following was the only solution that actually worked  https   phoenixnap com kb access-denied-for-user-root-localhost  sudo mysql ALTER USER  root   localhost  IDENTIFIED WITH mysql native password BY  insert password   mysql -u root -p

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This worked for me   On terminal type the following    sudo mysql -u root -p  Enter password   just press enter  mysql

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Unless the package manager requests you to type the root password during installation  the default root password is the empty string  To connect to freshly installed server  type   shell gt  mysql -u root --password  mysql gt    To change the password  get back the unix shell and type   shell gt  mysqladmin -u root --password  password root   The new password is  root   Now connect to the server   shell gt  mysql -u root --password  ERROR 1045  28000   Access denied for user  root   localhost   using password  NO    Oops  the password has changed  Use the new one  root   shell gt  mysql -u root --password root     blah  blah  blah   mysql welcome banner     mysql gt     Bingo  New do something interesting  mysql gt  show databases   --------------------    Database              --------------------    information schema     mysql                  performance schema    --------------------  3 rows in set  0 00 sec    Maurycy

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you can view mysql root password   well i have tried it on mysql 5 5 so do not know about other new version well work or not   nano    my cnf

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