databasically // Kansas City Small Business IT && Ruby on Rails Programming » Database http://databasically.com Kansas City Small Business IT Tue, 20 Jul 2010 21:35:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Changing the mysql root password http://databasically.com/2009/01/20/changing-the-mysql-root-password/ http://databasically.com/2009/01/20/changing-the-mysql-root-password/#comments Tue, 20 Jan 2009 21:54:05 +0000 Wes http://www.databasically.com/?p=79 I never can remember how to do this from the command line and the docs are just hazy enough to be a pain:

> mysqladmin -u root -p password <ENTER_NEW_PASSWORD>

And yes, that is “space-p-a-s-s-w-o-r-d” after the -p. Sending that tells mysql that you want to change the password to whatever is next. You’ll be prompted for the existing/old password:

Enter password: ********
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