How to set root password to null

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How can I change the password for root user of MySQL to null -- meaning no password or    -- from the MySQL command line client

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It s not a good idea to edit mysql database directly   I prefer the following steps   mysql gt  ALTER USER  root   localhost  IDENTIFIED BY      mysql gt  flush privileges

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After searching for hours i found it   just Change the password to something contains Upper case numeric and special characters in it

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The syntax is slightly different depending on version  From the docs here  https   dev mysql com doc refman 5 7 en resetting-permissions html  MySQL 5 7 6 and later   ALTER USER  root   localhost  IDENTIFIED BY       MySQL 5 7 5 and earlier   SET PASSWORD FOR  root   localhost    PASSWORD

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This is from MySQL 8 0 13   use mysql   update user set authentication string null  where user  root    quit

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For MySQL 8 0 just   SET PASSWORD FOR  root   localhost

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It works for me   ALTER USER  root   localhost  IDENTIFIED WITH mysql native password BY  password

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This worked for me on Ubuntu 16 04 with v5 7 15 MySQL   First  make sure you have mysql-client installed  sudo apt-get install mysql-client    Open terminal and login   mysql -uroot -p    then type your password   After that   use mysql  update user set authentication string password      plugin  mysql native password  where user  root      tnx  Stanislav Karakhanov   And the very last important thing is to reset mysql service   sudo service mysql restart   You should now be able to login  without passsword  also by using MySQL Workbench

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The answer by user64141  use mysql  update user set password null where User  root   flush privileges  quit    didn t work for me in MariaDB 10 1 5  supposed to be a drop in replacement for MySQL    While didn t tested it in MySQL 5 6 to see if is an upstream change  the error I got was      ERROR 1048  23000   Column  Password  cannot be null   But replacing the null with empty single or double quotes worked fine   update user set password    where User  root     or  update user set password    where User  root

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its all because you installed greater then 5 6 version of the mysql  Solutions  1 you can degrade mysql version solution  2 reconfigure authentication to native type or legacy type authentication using     configure option

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If you want an empty password  you should set the password to null and not use the Password hash function  as such   On the command line   sudo service mysql stop sudo mysqld safe --skip-grant-tables --skip-networking  amp  mysql -uroot   In MySQL   use mysql  update user set password null where User  root   flush privileges  quit

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Wanted to put my own 2cents in here bcuz the above answers did not work for me  On centos 7  mysql community v8  shell is bash   The correct commands would be as follows     start mysql without password checking systemctl stop mysqld 2 gt  dev null systemctl set-environment MYSQLD OPTS  --skip-grant-tables   amp  amp  systemctl start mysqld    set default password to nothing mysql -u root mysql  lt  lt -  EOF      FLUSH PRIVILEGES      UNINSTALL COMPONENT  file   component validate password       ALTER USER  root   localhost  IDENTIFIED WITH mysql native password BY         FLUSH PRIVILEGES      INSTALL COMPONENT  file   component validate password   EOF    restart mysql normally systemctl restart mysqld   then you can login without password   mysql -u root

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My variant for MySQL 5 7   Stop service mysql     sudo service mysql stop   Running in Safe Mode     sudo mysqld safe --skip-grant-tables --skip-networking    above line is the whole command   Open a new terminal window     mysql -u root    mysql use mysql     mysql update user set authentication string password  password   where user  root      mysql update user set plugin  mysql native password  where User  root      mysql flush privileges    mysql quit    Run the mysql service     sudo service mysql start

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For connect to mysql without password   mysql -p SET PASSWORD       https   dev mysql com doc refman 5 7 en set-password html

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Worked for me and   5 7 11 MySQL Community Server    use mysql  update user set authentication string password      plugin  mysql native password  where user  root     I had to change the  plugin  field as well because it was set to  auth socket    After that I could connect as mysql -u root without a password

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connect to mysql as user root  use one of the two following methods   login as root and start mysql using mysql -p  enter current root password login as self and start mysql using mysql -u root -p  enter current root password   mysql gt  set password   password        Done  No root password

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I am using nodejs and windows 10  A combination of two answers worked for me   mysql gt  ALTER USER  root   localhost  IDENTIFIED BY      mysql gt  flush privileges    followed by   restart    Hope this helps for others who still have an issue with this

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If you know your Root Password and just wish to reset it then do as below    Start MySQL Service from control panel   Administrative Tools   Services   only if it was stopped by you earlier   Otherwise  just skip this step  Start MySQL Workbench Type in this command SQL line  ALTER USER  root   localhost  PASSWORD EXPIRE    To reset any other user password    just type other user name instead of root

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I noticed a few of these solutions above are now deprecated   To set an empty password simply follow these steps   mysql -u root -p  use mysql  SET PASSWORD FOR  root   localhost          q  to quit   now run  mysql -u root   You should be able to start mysql up without a password now

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SET PASSWORD FOR  root   localhost    PASSWORD

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On ubuntu 19 10  mysql 8  this is what worked for me     sudo mysqld --skip-grant-tables  amp    mysql  gt  use mysql  gt  alter user set authentication string     plugin  mysql native password  where user    root    gt  quit   sudo mysqladmin shutdown   sudo systemctl start mysql   If you get errors trying to run mysqld safe  in particular   var run mysqld for UNIX socket file don t exists  you can try creating the dir and running mysqld safe again     sudo mkdir  var run mysqld   sudo chown mysql  var run mysqld   sudo chgrp mysql  var run mysqld

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You can recover MySQL database server password with following five easy steps   Step   1  Stop the MySQL server process   Step   2  Start the MySQL  mysqld  server daemon process with the --skip-grant-tables option so that it will not prompt for password   Step   3  Connect to mysql server as the root user   Step   4  Setup new mysql root account password i e  reset mysql password   Step   5  Exit and restart the MySQL server   Here are commands you need to type for each step  login as the root user    Step   1   Stop mysql service     etc init d mysql stop   Output   Stopping MySQL database server  mysqld    Step   2  Start to MySQL server w o password     mysqld safe --skip-grant-tables  amp    Output    1  5988 Starting mysqld daemon with databases from  var lib mysql mysqld safe 6025   started   Step   3  Connect to mysql server using mysql client     mysql -u root   Output   Welcome to the MySQL monitor   Commands end with   or  g  Your MySQL connection id is 1 to server version  4 1 15-Debian 1-log Type  help   or   h  for help  Type   c  to clear the buffer  mysql gt    Step   4  Setup new MySQL root user password  mysql gt  use mysql  mysql gt  update user set password PASSWORD  NEW-ROOT-PASSWORD   where User  root   mysql gt  flush privileges  mysql gt  quit   Step   5  Stop MySQL Server      etc init d mysql stop   Output   Stopping MySQL database server  mysqld STOPPING server from pid file  var run mysqld mysqld pid mysqld safe 6186   ended  1    Done                    mysqld safe --skip-grant-tables   Step   6  Start MySQL server and test it     etc init d mysql start   mysql       ERROR 1045  28000   Access denied for user  root   localhost   using password  NO     mysql -u root -p   Source  http   www cyberciti biz tips recover-mysql-root-password html

[mysql] How to set root password to null

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