Did You Forgot Root Password Of Your MySQL Database ?

If Yes, then no need to worry. Follow below easy steps to recover/crack your root password of MySQL database.

Step 1 : Stop MySQL service.

[root@afzalkhan ~]# /etc/init.d/mysqld stop
Stopping MySQL:                                            [  OK  ]
[root@afzalkhan ~]#

Step 2 : Start your MySQL database in safe mode. In this mode MySQL will not prompt for password.

[root@afzalkhan ~]# mysqld_safe --skip-grant-tables &
[1] 14236
[root@afzalkhan ~]#Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /var/lib/mysql

Step 3 : Connect to your MySQL server. In safe mode MySQL will allow you to enter in any databases without any authentication.

[root@afzalkhan ~]# mysql -u root

Welcome to the MySQL monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 1
Server version: 5.0.95 Source distribution

Copyright (c) 2000, 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.

Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its
affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective
owners.

Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement.

mysql> show databases;
+--------------------+
| Database           |
+--------------------+
| information_schema |
| afzalkhan          |
| OTRS               |
| ISP_DETAILS        |
| nagios             |          
| mysql              |
| squid              |
| test               |
| Squid_Cache        |
+--------------------+
10 rows in set (0.04 sec)

Step 4 : Select mysql database to make user level changes.

mysql> use mysql
Reading table information for completion of table and column names

You can turn off this feature to get a quicker startup with -A

Database changed

Step 5 : Now you can update your root user password using below statement.

mysql>  update user set password=PASSWORD("afzalkhantest") where User='root';
Query OK, 3 rows affected (0.00 sec)

Rows matched: 3  Changed: 3  Warnings: 0

mysql>

Step 6 : Execute FLUSH PRIVILEGES statement to tell the server to reload the grant tables.

mysql> flush privileges;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> quit
Bye

Step 7 : Stop safe mode MySQL instance & start with normal mode.

[root@afzalkhan ~]# /etc/init.d/mysqld restart
Stopping MySQL:                                            [  OK  ]
starting MySQL:         [  ok  ]
[root@afzalkhan ~]#

Step 8 : Now you should be able to connect your database using your new/cracked password

[root@afzalkhan ~]# mysql -u root -p
Enter password:

Welcome to the MySQL monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 3
Server version: 5.0.95 Source distribution

Copyright (c) 2000, 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.

Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its
affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective
owners.

Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement.

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