Reset the MySQL 5.7 root password in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
This is a bit gnarly. If you have a better method of updating the password without triggering a warning about PASSWORD being deprecated, I'm all ears.
# Stop MySQL
sudo service mysql stop
# Make MySQL service directory.
sudo mkdir /var/run/mysqld
# Give MySQL user permission to write to the service directory.
sudo chown mysql: /var/run/mysqld
# Start MySQL manually, without permission checks or networking.
sudo mysqld_safe --skip-grant-tables --skip-networking &
# Log in without a password.
mysql -uroot mysqlUpdate the password for the root user.
UPDATE mysql.user SET authentication_string=PASSWORD('YOURNEWPASSWORD'), plugin='mysql_native_password' WHERE User='root' AND Host='%';
EXIT;# Turn off MySQL.
sudo mysqladmin -S /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock shutdown
# Start the MySQL service normally.
sudo service mysql startWritten by Jon Peck
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Thousand thanks!!! It really helped me!
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Thanks for the post, this really saved me today. I only had to replace '%' with 'localhost' because I only had the root created with "localhost" ability. After that, I could login and add the root-user as well for "%" (any host) and now I can connect easily and add other users.
Thanks again, I already gist'ed it ;)
I could get in my precious MySQL after resetting this this command (for ubuntu 17.10 and mysql-5.7 the command on the post didn´ t work)
UPDATE mysql.user SET authentication_string=PASSWORD('YOURNEWPASSWORD'), plugin='mysql_native_password' WHERE User='root' AND Host='localhost';Saved the day!
Thanks @morhook, mine couldn't recognize '%' too
@moelha @morhook @ebumstengel @Jan Sarman could have used `UPDATE mysql.user SET authenticationstring=PASSWORD('YOURNEWPASSWORD'), plugin='mysqlnativepassword' WHERE User='root'` to update all root passwords regardless of their host.
