If you liked this blog, do share it with your friends. I hope you find this blog helpful.Thanks for being with me till the end. In this blog we have learned to change the MySQL root password on the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS system. MySQL’s root password is successfully changed. Now, Log in to the MySQL shell with your newly set password: Step 9: Check and login by your new password How to Change PHPMyAdmin Login URL Ubuntu Apache Use the ALTER USER command and change the authentication method to log into MySQL as root: 1 ALTER USER 'root''localhost' IDENTIFIED WITH mysqlnativepassword BY 'insertpassword' This command changes the password for the user root and sets the authentication method to mysqlnativepassword. Let’s tell the database server to reload the grant tables by issuing the FLUSH PRIVILEGES command. However, this command won’t work right now because the grant tables aren’t loaded. Now, restart the MySQL server using the command given below. One simple way to change the root password for modern versions of MySQL is using the ALTER USER command. Step 7: Kill all MySQL processes & Restart the MySQL serviceįirst of all, kill all the processes of MySQL before even restarting the MySQL server. Step 1 Installing phpMyAdmin To get started, we will install phpMyAdmin from the default Ubuntu repositories. Replace your_password_here with your own. Now, flush the privileges first and run the following command: You can now log in to the MySQL root account without a password using the command: Step 6: Change the root password Step 4: Start the MySQL serviceĪfter setting the environment variable MYSQLD_OPTS, start the MySQL service now using the command: Step 5: Sign In to the MySQL shell To start the MySQL server without granting the tables and networking check, set the environment variable MYSQLD_OPTS which MySQL uses on startup. Now check the status of the MySQL server to verify using the following command: Step 3: Skip Grant Tables & Networking To change the MySQL root password, you first need to shut down the MySQL server, and you can do so using the command: If the version of your MySQL is lower than 8, then the solution will be different. So, let’s start! Step 1: Check the version of MySQL on Ubuntu 20.04įirstly we need to check the version of your MySQL because this blog contains the solution of changing the root password on version 8 or higher. Let’s suppose a situation in which you have forgotten your mysql root password, so here is a solution for you. As we all know a password is a secret word or phrase which can be a series of letters or numbers that you need to know in order to be allowed into a place. Step 1: Check the version of MySQL on Ubuntu 20.04Step 2: Stop the MySQL serverStep 3: Skip Grant Tables & NetworkingStep 4: Start the MySQL serviceStep 5: Confirm the status of the MySQL.
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