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It happens everynow and again, you login to a server to do something with MySQL only to find the root password is nowhere to to be found.
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Step 1
First stop the database server with killall mysqld or /etc/init.d/mysqld stop
Step 2
Execute the command mysqld –skip-grant-tables –user=root to get the MySQL server running again minus the need for a password.
Step 3
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