Comments on: Resetting Your Forgotten MySQL Password

By: Tim Knight

Tim Knight — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 20:06:01 +0000

Thank you Robert. I definitely did avoid addressing how to stop the service since many users would be different (depending on operating system). Thanks for posting how to do it for Mac OSX.

By: Robert

Robert — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 20:03:02 +0000

Awesome, thanks!!! The only thing I would add for novices like me is how to stop the server.

/Library/StartupItems/MySQLCOM/MySQLCOM stop

By: madhavi ganti

madhavi ganti — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 20:43:48 +0000

Thanks !! That worked :)

By: Tim Knight

Tim Knight — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 12:39:50 +0000

First make sure that you have the server running successfully without the grant tables. Next you might consider running the server using the sudo command if you didn’t previously. There are several entries in the MySQL support forum with that error message that might be able to provide you with some solid insight.

By: madhavi ganti

madhavi ganti — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 04:04:59 +0000

On opening the second terminal window, and using ” /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql mysql” (withouth quotes) resulted in ERROR 1044 (42000): Access denied for user ”@’localhost’ to database ‘mysql’…Any ideas how I can resolve this?? :(

By: Jay

Jay — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 03:43:03 +0000

P.S. I also had to use sudo in the first terminal window

By: Tim Knight

Tim Knight — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 03:40:34 +0000

Thanks Jay, I’m glad I was able to give you a starting point!

By: Jay

Jay — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 03:38:44 +0000

Had a problem as well – simply changed the single quotes to a double quote, used mysql_safe, and made sure I didn’t use the $ in my password (which is what hosed it up the first time).
Thanks for figuring out how to do this and then posting it!

By: Reset MySQL 5 root password on Mac OS X Drija

Reset MySQL 5 root password on Mac OS X Drija — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 03:18:31 +0000

[...] 5 on Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6.1), set a password and forgot it. I tried to follow this tutorial: http://blog.innovativethought.net/2007/05/17/resetting-your-forgotten-mysql-password/ but when I [...]

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.