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Asked: 2026-06-03T04:00:19+00:00

I installed MySQL and was playing around with the password settings trying to get

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I installed MySQL and was playing around with the password settings trying to get WordPress to connect to it. In doing so, I seem to have hashed my root password and now cannot login.

I’m trying to reset the password by running

/etc/init.d/mysqld stop

Then

mysqld_safe --skip-grant-tables

Which outputs 

Starting mysql daemon with databases from /var/lib/mysql

But then does nothing. It neither succeeds nor fails. I’ve not got any databases setup so I’d be happy to remove and reinstall mysql if necessary but I tried that to no avail. How can I get back in?

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  1. Editorial Team

    mysqld_safe is the command to start the mysql engine. It’s not supposed to do or show anything after the line saying that it’s started mysql. Once you’ve run mysqld_safe, the next step is to run mysql. Because you started mysqld with --skip-grant-tables you won’t need to specify a username or password.

    You can then give the command to reset root’s password. For instructions on how to set a password, see http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/set-password.html .

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