Mysql is a powerful database management system that is open-source and free. In order to prevent unauthorized access, it offers administrative access to the database system. You may also select which database operations a user is permitted to do.
In this post, we'll walk you through two basic steps for resetting your MySQL passwordon a
Mac`.
In order to complete this tutorial, the following are required:
In this post, we'll walk you through two basic steps for resetting your MySQL password on a Mac.
If mysql is being utilized, it must first be stopped from running. To do so, open your terminal and type the following command:
sudo /usr/local/mysql/support-files/mysql.server stop
This will bring the server to a stop, allowing us to proceed with the password reset.
We need to run MySQL server in safe mode with privilege bypass
. To accomplish this, use the following command in the terminal:
sudo mysqld_safe --skip-grant-tables
Now that we've bypassed MySQL server privilege, we need to reset the user password to null. To do so, start a new terminal and type the commands below:
mysql -u root
UPDATE mysql.user SET authentication_string=null WHERE User='root';
We can now modify the user password because it has been changed to null. To accomplish this, enter the following commands:
mysql -u root
UPDATE mysql.user SET authentication_string=PASSWORD("newpassword") WHERE User='root';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
Change the **newpassword
**in the above command to your desired password.
The overall command to change the password is as follows:
sudo /usr/local/mysql/support-files/mysql.server stop
sudo mysqld_safe --skip-grant-tables
mysql -u root
UPDATE mysql.user SET authentication_string=null WHERE User='root';
mysql -u root
UPDATE mysql.user SET authentication_string=PASSWORD("newpassword") WHERE User='root';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
Now that your password is reset, follow this guide to connect a SQL client to MySQL and start writing queries!
You can also run MySQL in Docker and connect to it in other languages like Java.
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