Comments on: Resetting Your Forgotten MySQL Password

By: Tim Knight

Tim Knight — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:41:35 +0000

Naveen,

Remember that when you execute sudo it is asking you for you administrative users password (either your password if you are on the sudoers file, or the password of root). When resetting the password you may want to use a simple password temporarily so you can login the database first to confirm the reset, then selecting a more secure password after the reset is confirmed.

By: naveen

naveen — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:36:23 +0000

Hi,

I tried the above process, everything worked fine but when I enter the new password it says incorrect password.

Also when I retry the above process now, it asks for the password again as soon as I enter
sudo /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqld_safe –skip-grant-tables.

Could somebody help me out with this.

Thanks,
Naveen

By: MikeM

MikeM — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:18:44 +0000

Thanks for the instructions on how to do this! Very appreciated.

By: Grant

Grant — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:48:12 +0000

I had the same problem with the syntax, not sure what the problem is, but i tried this one and it worked:

UPDATE mysql.user SET Password=PASSWORD(‘vsn123′) WHERE User=’root’; FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

By: Kristi

Kristi — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:54:20 +0000

You just saved me a lot of heartache. THANK YOU. I had the same problem as Richard, but when I prefaced the commands with “sudo” it all worked out.

By: Tim Knight

Tim Knight — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 15:53:46 +0000

Good catch RY, mysqld_safe is what is available it in MySQL 5, it seems – I’ve updated the post to reflect that. Thanks for pointing it out.

By: RY

RY — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:00:15 +0000

I don’t know about everyone else, but for the version of MySQL I have…

safe_mysqld

is instead

mysqld_safe.

But thanks for your help. :)

By: Tim

Tim — Sat, 16 May 2009 16:01:05 +0000

Richard I would imagine that the MySQL installation was probably installed by the admin account or account other then yours? Make sure your account has admin rights on the Mac, you may be required to run it with sudo at the terminal – in which case if you are not an admin user, you’ll have to make sure you are on the sudoers list on the mac. A blog with information on adding yourself to the sudoers list can be found at http://www.macmartine.com/blog/2008/04/adding_a_user_to_sudoers_file.html

By: Richard

Richard — Sat, 16 May 2009 01:31:04 +0000

i went and used mysqld_safe –skip-grant-tables but this is what is said

090515 20:27:30 mysqld_safe Logging to ‘/usr/local/mysql/data/richard-downess-macbook.local.err’.
touch: /usr/local/mysql/data/richard-downess-macbook.local.err: Permission denied
chown: /usr/local/mysql/data/richard-downess-macbook.local.err: Permission denied
090515 20:27:30 mysqld_safe Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /usr/local/mysql/data
/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqld_safe: line 100: /usr/local/mysql/data/richard-downess-macbook.local.err: Permission denied
rm: /usr/local/mysql/data/richard-downess-macbook.local.pid: Permission denied
/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqld_safe: line 137: /usr/local/mysql/data/richard-downess-macbook.local.err: Permission denied
090515 20:27:30 mysqld_safe mysqld from pid file /usr/local/mysql/data/richard-downess-macbook.local.pid ended
/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqld_safe: line 100: /usr/local/mysql/data/richard-downess-macbook.local.err: Permission denied

any ideas? i have the preferences pane loaded and it is showing mysql as stopped….

By: Tim

Tim — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 17:25:58 +0000

Ronan, glad it helped you… not sure why the syntax wouldn’t have worked for you — seems to be the same to me. Perhaps case-sensitivity in the column names… name sure.